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New PC, old HDD
Name: Harry (by Hugger1) Date: May 17, 2007 at 06:43:00 Pacific OS: Windows XP Pro CPU/Ram: 550 MHZ / 640 MB
Comment:
Hi all;
My dad has purchased (refurbished) a new PC. He'd like to use the HDD (it has Windows 98SE on it) from his old PC as a data drive in his new PC. Now, how do I go about wiping out the old OS from it, but yet keep the personal files he has on it? I know about putting it in the new PC and setting it up as a slave, etc. But I'm a little confused about the process for keeping his personal files and not wiping them out if I was to reformat it.
Name: Doctor1954 Date: May 17, 2007 at 07:01:27 Pacific
Reply:
You don't need to eliminate WIN98 OS.
He can identify the "personal" files and put them in a folder. Then just delete everything else ... and hope that he selected all those things he didn't want to delete.
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Response Number 2
Name: Sabertooth Date: May 17, 2007 at 11:00:14 Pacific
Reply:
Or just connect the old HDD as slave & use it as is - without deleting anything. After all, Windows 98 is not really taking a huge chunk of space on the old HDD or is it?
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Response Number 3
Name: trvlr Date: May 19, 2007 at 13:26:53 Pacific
Reply:
And for safety sake... before you decide to play with the '98 drive... Whilst it's in own system, copy off those files etc. to removable media (cd/dvd); verify they are readable both by the '98 and the new (XP) system. Then proceed as you wish with that '98 drive. And also regularly check and update those cd/dvd copies...
Truly readable copies (on cd/dvd etc.) are invariably nice to have (en avance) in the event of problems with any PC system.
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Name: Harry (by Hugger1)
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