Re: Moving old master drive with win98 to slave on XP?

Okay, sounds good. I have a CD-Rom, IDE ZIP-100, Drive 1, Drive 2. Based on what you are suggesting, the only place left for the Zip drive is on the primary IDE channel as slave. Will that work OK?

Rich Barry wrote:

Arnie, it will not screw up XP. You may have to rt click MyComputer>select Manage>Disk Management>rt click on the
old drive and give it a drive letter. I would put the old drive on the Secondary IDE channel as Master. If you have cdrom
or cd/dvd burner slave that to it.
"Arnie Goetchius" <arnie.goetchius@xxxxxxx> wrote in message news:IU6Ne.630523$cg1.591812@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

I have a new Dell with XP. I plan to take the drive from my old computer which is running win98 and make it the slave on the XP. I understand the issues about setting jumpers for master and slave. Can XP handle the fact that win98 will be on the slave drive and that it is configured as a bootable drive? IOW, wiil the fact that the slave drive has a bootable win98 partition on it screw up XP? I don't need win98 and will eventually delete it but I need to be able access the data files stored on the slave drive. 



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