My computer has been hanging recently and I can't find the reason yet. Rather than reformatting drive C and reinstalling win98se on drive C, I want to install Win98SE on hard drive D. How do I do this? If I put the win 98 CD in the CD drive I get an error message that a newer version of windows is available (98SE I guess). Do I use the win 98 or win98se CD to install? Thanks.

You'd have to unplug the C: drive so that only the D drive is available. Then the D: drive would have to be the boot drive or it will keep going back to the C: drive to try and boot. Larry

1. Turn off your system and unplug your both drives mark which is your c-drive with a marker and call it “old” 2. Set your new drive as a master plug your new drive in where your old drive was then reboot. 3. Enter your bios and then auto detect new drives then save your info and reboot now. 4. Now Install windows on your new drive … (if the drive is ready for it you shouldn’t need a startup disk otherwise insert your startup disk and C-D and run setup) 5. When your operating system is successfully installed and all your updates have been done and your virus scanner is installed and updated and working properly then … 6. Reinstall your old drive in the available IDE spot and make sure it is set as slave 7. Reboot and select auto detect hard drives from your BIOS . 8. now scan your old drive for Viruses 9. Now you can safely copy any info from your old drive to your new drive (all your pic’s ,music ,etc. Just remember that any program’s or games you had previously installed must be installed on your new drive for them to work .

I've never tried setting up a dual boot using the same operating systems, but it should work? Just boot to Windows as you normally would, pop in the Win98SE CD...if you get that error message when it auto starts, just close it & go to My Computer...right click on the CD drive with the Win98CD & select EXPLORE...open the Win98 folder & double click setup.exe. Hopefully setup will begin...make sure it installs into D:\Windows...not C:\Windows or C:\Windows.000 A quick search turned up this...I never tried it but you might wanna have a look... http://tweakhomepc.virtualave.net/dual/dualse95.shtml

HI all if post #3 does not work. It is easyer just to enter bios setup and tell bios that the hdd is not installed vise auto detect. or might be able to change boot order from 1st IDE device to 2nd IDE device?

Yeah, I've done it that way before. Just set the drive that already has windows on it to NONE in cmos. Then install windows in the normal manner on the remaining drive. After installation, set the first drive back to it's normal setting in cmos. Although both drives will be set active, it will boot from the original drive since it'll be on primary master.

Use a software called OSL2000 Boot Manager. This program will fix it for you. HTH/Tommy