> Here's the deal. I have been using 98 2ndEd OS on my
> system for many moons. I recently purchased a new Dell
> with XP pro. What I am now finding that some 98 apps do
> not run on XP even with the MS Compat utility. So here's
> the question.
>
> Can I take my original 98 boot drive out of my old PC and
> add it to the new XP system as the second drive and have a
> dual boot OS? If so what do I need to dobedoo?
>
> Surfmnky
>
> Here's the deal. I have been using 98 2ndEd OS on my
> system for many moons. I recently purchased a new Dell
> with XP pro. What I am now finding that some 98 apps do
> not run on XP even with the MS Compat utility. So here's
> the question.
>
> Can I take my original 98 boot drive out of my old PC and
> add it to the new XP system as the second drive and have a
> dual boot OS? If so what do I need to dobedoo?
>
> Surfmnky
>
>-----Original Message-----you can rearrange
>Hi,
>
>You need more help than that to do it easily. However, if
>the BIOS boot order, you should be able to set the systemto boot either
>drive, but it requires that you change the boot ordereach time you wish to
>change.how it is
>
>The problem is, Win98 will see itself as "C", as that is
>installed, and it needs to boot from a FAT32 partition.As a slave drive, it
>will not see itself as "C", and the system will bebooting from the master
>drive (WinXP, which is probably using NTFS). Theworkaround is to use a boot
>manager that has an option to "swap" or reverse the driveorder, and will be
>able to allow the Win98 system to boot.www.terabyteunlimited.com
>
>One that can do this: BootIT NG from
>and
>--
>Best of Luck,
>
>Rick Rogers aka "Nutcase" MS-MVP - Win9x
>http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
>Associate Expert - WinXP - Expert Zone
>www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
>Win98 Help - www.rickrogers.org
>
>"Surfmnky" <surfmnky@pacbell.net> wrote in message
>news:05e501c340e6$bade1c40$a101280a@phx.gbl...>> Here's the deal. I have been using 98 2ndEd OS on my
>> system for many moons. I recently purchased a new Dell
>> with XP pro. What I am now finding that some 98 apps do
>> not run on XP even with the MS Compat utility. So here's
>> the question.
>>
>> Can I take my original 98 boot drive out of my old PC
have a>> add it to the new XP system as the second drive and
>> dual boot OS? If so what do I need to dobedoo?>
>>
>> Surfmnky
>>
>
>.
>
>-----Original Message-----bios utility that will
>Surfmnky
>I don't know much about a Dell, but, it should have a
>allow you to boot from either drive. And yes, you can runboth drives. Read
>your documentation on your machine and it should give youthe proper key
>sequence to press when you first turn on your machine. Onmy computer, (a
>clone, that i built) I press f8 and it gives me a bootoption of ide drive,
>or cd-rom or zip or floppy. Hope that helps.and
>
>--
>Wayne
>"Friendship through radio"
>"Surfmnky" <surfmnky@pacbell.net> wrote in message
>news:05e501c340e6$bade1c40$a101280a@phx.gbl...>> Here's the deal. I have been using 98 2ndEd OS on my
>> system for many moons. I recently purchased a new Dell
>> with XP pro. What I am now finding that some 98 apps do
>> not run on XP even with the MS Compat utility. So here's
>> the question.
>>
>> Can I take my original 98 boot drive out of my old PC
have a>> add it to the new XP system as the second drive and
>> dual boot OS? If so what do I need to dobedoo?>
>>
>> Surfmnky
>>
>
>.
>
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