Win 98 on 2nd drive

[Martha Reese]

I want to recover data from my old hard drive (Win 98 OS)
by mounting it in my new machine which is loaded with Win
XP Home Edition. After I've recovered the data, I'd like
to just format that older drive and use it for backups.
Will this create dangerous conflicts? My brother insists
that XP can handle such an arrangement, but I want the
opinion of people who have more experience than he does.

[Harry Ohrn]

The brother is correct. Connect the old drive with the jumper pin set in the
"Slave" position on the same IDE controller as the XP drive and boot up.

--

Harry Ohrn - MS MVP (Windows Shell/User]
www.webtree.ca/windowsxp/
www.webtree.ca/newlife/


"Martha Reese" > wrote in message
...
> I want to recover data from my old hard drive (Win 98 OS)
> by mounting it in my new machine which is loaded with Win
> XP Home Edition. After I've recovered the data, I'd like
> to just format that older drive and use it for backups.
> Will this create dangerous conflicts? My brother insists
> that XP can handle such an arrangement, but I want the
> opinion of people who have more experience than he does.

[Harry Ohrn]

The brother is correct. Connect the old drive with the jumper pin set in the
"Slave" position on the same IDE controller as the XP drive and boot up.

--

Harry Ohrn - MS MVP (Windows Shell/User]
www.webtree.ca/windowsxp/
www.webtree.ca/newlife/


"Martha Reese" > wrote in message
...
> I want to recover data from my old hard drive (Win 98 OS)
> by mounting it in my new machine which is loaded with Win
> XP Home Edition. After I've recovered the data, I'd like
> to just format that older drive and use it for backups.
> Will this create dangerous conflicts? My brother insists
> that XP can handle such an arrangement, but I want the
> opinion of people who have more experience than he does.

[Dan DeStefano]

just more info on why xp can read the old drive: xp can read all current
microsoft hard disk file systems - fat, fat32, ntfs4 and ntfs5. your old hdd
was likely formatted with the fat32 file system, which windows xp will be
able to read. however, the reverse would not be true (provided your xp hdd
is formatted with ntfs, which is highly recommended) - windows 98 can only
read fat and fat32, it cannot read ntfs at all. so, if you wanted to put an
ntfs-formatted hdd in a win98 machine, win98 would not be able to read or
recover the data from it.

Dan DeStefano


"Martha Reese" > wrote in message
...
> I want to recover data from my old hard drive (Win 98 OS)
> by mounting it in my new machine which is loaded with Win
> XP Home Edition. After I've recovered the data, I'd like
> to just format that older drive and use it for backups.
> Will this create dangerous conflicts? My brother insists
> that XP can handle such an arrangement, but I want the
> opinion of people who have more experience than he does.

[Dan DeStefano]

just more info on why xp can read the old drive: xp can read all current
microsoft hard disk file systems - fat, fat32, ntfs4 and ntfs5. your old hdd
was likely formatted with the fat32 file system, which windows xp will be
able to read. however, the reverse would not be true (provided your xp hdd
is formatted with ntfs, which is highly recommended) - windows 98 can only
read fat and fat32, it cannot read ntfs at all. so, if you wanted to put an
ntfs-formatted hdd in a win98 machine, win98 would not be able to read or
recover the data from it.

Dan DeStefano


"Martha Reese" > wrote in message
...
> I want to recover data from my old hard drive (Win 98 OS)
> by mounting it in my new machine which is loaded with Win
> XP Home Edition. After I've recovered the data, I'd like
> to just format that older drive and use it for backups.
> Will this create dangerous conflicts? My brother insists
> that XP can handle such an arrangement, but I want the
> opinion of people who have more experience than he does.

[LVTravel]

Also, in addition to placing the jumper on the Win 98 drive to slave you MAY
have to change the jumper on the Win XP drive, depending on the drive's
manufacturer. Some drives are preset as Master-Single while others have
separate jumper settings for Single and Master/Slave combinations.


"Harry Ohrn" > wrote in message
...
> The brother is correct. Connect the old drive with the jumper pin set in
the
> "Slave" position on the same IDE controller as the XP drive and boot up.
>
> --
>
> Harry Ohrn - MS MVP (Windows Shell/User]
> www.webtree.ca/windowsxp/
> www.webtree.ca/newlife/
>
>
> "Martha Reese" > wrote in message
> ...
> > I want to recover data from my old hard drive (Win 98 OS)
> > by mounting it in my new machine which is loaded with Win
> > XP Home Edition. After I've recovered the data, I'd like
> > to just format that older drive and use it for backups.
> > Will this create dangerous conflicts? My brother insists
> > that XP can handle such an arrangement, but I want the
> > opinion of people who have more experience than he does.
>
>

[LVTravel]

Also, in addition to placing the jumper on the Win 98 drive to slave you MAY
have to change the jumper on the Win XP drive, depending on the drive's
manufacturer. Some drives are preset as Master-Single while others have
separate jumper settings for Single and Master/Slave combinations.


"Harry Ohrn" > wrote in message
...
> The brother is correct. Connect the old drive with the jumper pin set in
the
> "Slave" position on the same IDE controller as the XP drive and boot up.
>
> --
>
> Harry Ohrn - MS MVP (Windows Shell/User]
> www.webtree.ca/windowsxp/
> www.webtree.ca/newlife/
>
>
> "Martha Reese" > wrote in message
> ...
> > I want to recover data from my old hard drive (Win 98 OS)
> > by mounting it in my new machine which is loaded with Win
> > XP Home Edition. After I've recovered the data, I'd like
> > to just format that older drive and use it for backups.
> > Will this create dangerous conflicts? My brother insists
> > that XP can handle such an arrangement, but I want the
> > opinion of people who have more experience than he does.
>
>