OK...Help! installing a replacement hd

[johns]

PowerQuest will hide the 2nd OS if you want it too.
I never do, and it works fine. Smart program !!

johns

 

[johns]

this would be the A drive? The roadblock I think I'll have is lack of DOS
skills.

It is fairly intuitive, but still you are messing with tech
tools, and I generally have a world of junk to play
with and learn on. You can do the same thing with
Norton Ghost, and I've called their tech support for
a talk through in the past. Nice folks.

johns

 

[Als]

Thanks, Trent. The main reasons for a new drive are that, first, the
original is absolutely full of spyware, adware, etc. (rendering it barely
useable), and-- backing up all my files will be too time consuming for me
to
do it at the moment. So it made sense to just buy another drive and backup
the old as I get time. In another post on this thread, I mentioned some of
this. I ended up taking a chance and buying a 40 gig Maxtor last night,
concerned about the size issue. If it doesn't work on this sys, I'll use
it
for another later. I'm sure it doesn't make sense to most people here to
not
only use W98, but to do any work at all on such an old sys. Just thought
it
would be a cheap way (aside from the time involved) to jump in and learn.
Gotta start somewhere.

SNIP


This just a drag/drop operation (or cut/paste)? Lol, hope I'm not that
much
of a spaz to not realize what direction the files'r heading. But you never
know with a newb....




You too. Happy New Year!



Gonna pass on that one.

One last comment, you may want to download Adaware to help get the spy ware
under control. This is just one company but as it is free it is worth the
effort. Here is a link.

http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/


Don't forget to reinstall your antivirus as well.

Al

 

[TD]

Thanks, Al.

 

[TD]

I would just get rid of all that adware and spyware, give your system a
good cleanup and optimization, and it will probably run about as good as it
ever did.

I would if it didn't seem like an impossible task, J.S. I've used AdAware
and Spybot S&D endlessly, and find them to not do the job. They always leave
lots behind. Cleaning up this thing would be a major headache, with all
kinds of investigation, registry hacks, etc. Not worth it (if even
possible), IMO.

Disable any unneeded background apps w/ msconfig or other startup
manager. Windows Messenger is notorious from nearly the beginning.

Then see http://www.fixyourwindows.com/ and do all the
optimization steps there. He mentions blackviper's site, which has free
.reg files to turn off all those unneeded services running in the
background--highly recommended.

Turn off hibernation.

After you turn off system restore, use ERUNT on a
schedule for registry backups.

http://home.t-online.de/home/lars.hederer/erunt

Finally, use XPlite to get rid of much bloat. I think there's a freeware
version.

Now that you've bought an extra HD (everybody needs one), use it as a
backup drive. Get a good imaging program like Acronis True Image or Ghost
9.0 to make images of your C: drive on your new D:. Then use a program like
SyncBack to make daily backups of your Documents and Settings/User.

As for Win98, just run that in a virtual machine. Get VMWare or Virtual PC
for the purpose. No need for any extra partitions and dual booting etc.

Thanks for your reply, J.S. I'll check out the sites you've mentioned.