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Name: james strong Date: April 27, 2001 at 06:42:48 Pacific
Comment:
My c drive was only 1GB, I have now added a second drive 10GB (now formatted), I wish to load windows 98 onto my pc. Presumably the new drive should become the 'c' drive, and the old drive become the 'd' slave drive. I am currently running in windows 95 from the small hard disk. What order should I proceed in. Can I load Windows 98 over Windows 95?? or should I uninstall windows 95, change the letter of the hard drives, and then reload windows 98 onto new larger drive (now assigned 'c')
Name: tanika Date: April 27, 2001 at 06:58:38 Pacific
Reply:
ok first u need to make the hard drives master and slave so the comp knows who is the master
there r jumpers which r located near the power supply at the end the order in which the jumpers are set should be on the top.. make the new hard drive master and the other slave.. use a boot disc and load win98 on the new one then if u want to u can format the old one and use that one for all the information u want to save.. use fdisk and partion the new drive which if u do a search about fdisk on the internet it should tell u how or i can send u a copy to your email... hope that helps.. and yes u can load win98 over win95 but u can do load win over an earlier edition
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Response Number 2
Name: Hurd Date: April 27, 2001 at 10:58:12 Pacific
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Depends on how much you want to save your old system. You could install Win98 over your Win95 system. Then copy C: to D:. Then swap drives and make the new drive 'active' using a bootable floppy with fdisk. Or you could swap the drives, make the new drive 'active' and install Win98 'clean' on it. If your Bios supports booting from the second IDE controller, you would then have the option of booting from the win98 drive or the Win95 drive.
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