Configuring Slave Drive

[briceb]

Because my PC recently went down, I would like to move my primary hard drive (C http://www.PCGuide.com/ubb/smile.gif from my bad PC and use it as a slave HD on another PC. This HD is loaded with WIN 98 and the PC I want to move it to is running WIN95. This new PC already has a secondary HD (D: & E: drives) which I will remove.

I know hooking it up is fairly easy and that during bootup I hit F5 or something to enter SETUP. How do I know what the correct slave HD settings should be? Perhaps I could use the existing ones?

Will I run into problems accessing programs (MS Office, & others) that were running on this WIN98 HD but will now be accessed via the primary WIN95 HD? This are NOT WIN98 specific programs!

Please let me know what your thoughts are.

Thank you!

[YODA74]

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[classicsoftware]

There are several issues you raise.

On the new slave hard drive, how many partitions are there?

Remener the way MS works, all primary partitions will be first.


As for the installation, if the machine is new, the bios should recognize the hard drive itself and that will be that. If not , get the model number of the hard drive and go to the manufacturers web site and get the drive geometry (head cylinders etc) and in the setup when you get to the seconf hard drive, there should be an option usually called user that will allow you to manually enter the info for the drive.

You will NOT be able to execute programs that are installed on the new slave drive as they must be installed and have the appropraite registry entries made by the installation program. The data will be there but I don't think many of the programs will run.

[Dinosaur]

If the motherboards are not too different, perhaps you should install the Windows 98 drive as the primary. Why not run 98 instead of 95?

How are the drives on your two systems partitioned? Is the E drive a CD?

You might not have to remove your existing second drive. You can run 4 IDE devices on most systems (8 on some newer ones). I assume you are using IDE disks. You could have three disks and one CD reader.



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