Mark
December 6th 03, 09:46 AM
Did exactly the same on my new machine, moved 2nd HD to
new XP machine from Win98 machine. Make sure jumper
settings on both HD's are correctly set up, & BIOS is
setup for it too, could read 2nd drive straight away, but
converted it to NTFS so that XP could 'do it's stuff'
with it. I use 2nd HD for My Documents, & backups etc,
as well as putting my Temp Internet Files on it. If ya
need any more help just E-Mail me.
>-----Original Message-----
>I have a secondary hard drive in my old Win98 machine
>that has all my pictures and docs on it. Can I just
>unplug that and move it to my new XP computer? Seems
>like that would be a whole lot easier than doing the XP
>file transfer procedure - and I want the hard drive
>anyway for storage. I don't care about transferring the
>settings and all as described in that wizard. I just
>need to know if XP will see the old hard drive and the
>files - or do they have to be converted some way?
>
>Any help - much appreciated..........
>.
>
new XP machine from Win98 machine. Make sure jumper
settings on both HD's are correctly set up, & BIOS is
setup for it too, could read 2nd drive straight away, but
converted it to NTFS so that XP could 'do it's stuff'
with it. I use 2nd HD for My Documents, & backups etc,
as well as putting my Temp Internet Files on it. If ya
need any more help just E-Mail me.
>-----Original Message-----
>I have a secondary hard drive in my old Win98 machine
>that has all my pictures and docs on it. Can I just
>unplug that and move it to my new XP computer? Seems
>like that would be a whole lot easier than doing the XP
>file transfer procedure - and I want the hard drive
>anyway for storage. I don't care about transferring the
>settings and all as described in that wizard. I just
>need to know if XP will see the old hard drive and the
>files - or do they have to be converted some way?
>
>Any help - much appreciated..........
>.
>