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Anna wrote:
>>>"Arnie Goetchius" <arnie.goetchius@att.net> wrote in message
>>>news:IU6Ne.630523$cg1.591812@bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net...
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>>>>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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>>Rich Barry wrote:
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>>> 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.
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> "Arnie Goetchius" <arnie.goetchius@att.net> wrote in message
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>>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?
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> Arnie:
> Rich is correct in that the fact that Win98 is installed on the old drive
> should not cause any problem as long as you're not going to boot to it and
> you're using it solely for storage and/or backup purposes; however, I'm not
> sure why Rich recommended installing the old drive as a Master on the
> Secondary IDE channel. In this situation it really doesn't matter whether
> it's connected as a Slave to your Primary Master drive or as either a Master
> or Slave on the Secondary IDE channel.
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> It is conceivable as Rich mentions that you *may* have to use Disk
> Management to assign a drive letter to that drive after it's installed, but
> usually that will be handled automatically by the OS. If the assigned drive
> letter is not the one you want, you can later access DM to change it.
> Anna
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Thanks for your thoughts. Right now the new computer has the hardrive on the
primary IDE and the CD-Rom on the secondary IDE. Physically, it wil be easier to
hook the second drive as the slave on the primary IDE and the Zip disk as the
slave on the secondary IDE. I'll probably start with that.
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