Re: New to XP
From: Ken Blake (kblake_at_this.is.an.invalid.domain)
Date: 01/22/05
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Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2005 09:28:20 -0700
In news:J7SdnWiOAI3Dzm_cRVn-vA@adelphia.com,
New Guy <duane0524@adelphia.net> typed:
>I just did a clean install of XP on a second harddrive that I
>had. My
> question now is how do I get the files from my Win98 harddrive
> over
> the XP harddrive?
There's no need to do that. The Windows 98 drive remains
accessible and you can use the data files there whenever you want
to.
You can't run any programs there from within Windows XP (they
have to be reinstalled), but data is no problem.
-- Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User Please reply to the newsgroup > I formatted the XP to NFTS and the 98 is fat32. I > would prefer not to copy everything to a cd then drag it over. > The > 98 operatoring system is still in working condition on the > first > harddrive, I can boot off of either one. > > I have been reading that I can not get at these files, but I > wanted > to check with you guys first. I certainly can slave the 98 > harddrive > up, but did not really want to take things apart until I knew > if it > would work or not. > > Thanks in advance.
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