XP and 98

You *probably* won't have a problem since most, if not all, BIOSes boot from
the primary IDE drive. But Carey's solution is so much easier, and
completely reliable.

--
Ted Zieglar
formerly "Rocket J. Squirrel"


"Adam" <adwetzel2@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:457901c4733f$0a4c4140$a301280a@phx.gbl...

> If I purcharse a new computer with XP installed, am I going
> to have any problems with taking my old harddrive that has
> 98SE and hooking it up as a slave drive to copy my files
> over to the new harddrive?

"Adam" <adwetzel2@yahoo.com> wrote:

>If I purcharse a new computer with XP installed, am I going
>to have any problems with taking my old harddrive that has
>98SE and hooking it up as a slave drive to copy my files
>over to the new harddrive?

There is one potential problem but it can be avoided.

Sometimes, not always, two drives have problems working as master and
slave on the same IDE channel. This is most likely to occur when
there are several years difference in the manufacturing dates of the
two drives and especially so if the two drives are from different
manufacturers. Also some drives require a different jumper setting
for "stand alone master drive" and for "master drive with slave
present" so it may be necessary to remove the new hard drive so as to
change the jumper setting on it.

For these reasons I always suggest that temporary hard drive installs
such as you are proposing be done by using the *secondary* IDE channel
for the temporary second hard drive. On most machines this is best
done by unplugging the data cable and power lead from the CDROM drive
in the new machine and using these to connect up the temporary second
hard drive. This avoids any possible problems in the master/slave
relationship and it also avoids any need to check the jumper settings
on either hard drive.

Good luck


Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
--
Microsoft MVP
On-Line Help Computer Service
http://onlinehelp.bc.ca

"The reason computer chips are so small is computers don't eat much."