I installed a 2nd. hard drive (D) and want to do a clean install of Win98 on it but the Win98 installation CD defaults to a re-install on the old C drive.

I want to keep the bootable C drive until I'm finished setting up everything on the new D drive.

Is there a way I can select which drive to install Win98 on?

Thanks

Is is a brand new hard drive? If it is, I believe that it is probably NTFS formatted and Win98 will not see an NTFS partition, to check, use your win98 boot floppy and when at the a: prompt, type fdisk and check for non-dos partitions. If it is NTFS formatted, you will need to delete that partition and reformat the drive as Fat32, then when you are entering the windows setup, you should be able to choose to set up Win98 at another location (eg. d drive)

Hope this helps

Ladybug

If you are intending to set new drive as Master once '98 (+ apps.) is installed then set the new drive to be Master without a Slave on EIDE channel-2; set bios to boot to it - rather than the EIDE-1; install '98 there and any apps/utils.

You can reset bios to boot to other drive whenever you want to access it during this installaton time. When new drive is as you want, install to EIDE-1 and set bios to boot to/from it. Install old drive as slave to it - so as to access anything you want off it.

Suggest you configure new drive to have both Primary and Extended partition; Primary for OS/apps, Extended for data.

Under normal circumstances you cannot easily install a second '9x family OS to a system where there is already a version of '9x present (unless you include a boot-manger util of some sort - NT/W2K/XP and the various commercial utils in the process). There are fudges to get around it but in your situation they probably wouldn't really be a viable route to go?

Thank you Ladybug and the anonymous contributor.

Ladybug, the drive is FAT 32 and although it works fine, I forgot to mention it is running as master from a separate eide controller card. I think that is why fdisk only sees the original C drive.

Anonymous contributor, you are exactly right about what I intend to do.

I will wait for a bit to see if there are any other suggestions then get to work on this.

Thank you both

Maybe this is more complex than what I'm reading, but why don't you physically remove the first drive, so that Windows has no choice but to install on the new drive? Then, if you needed both drives hooked up at once (e.g. you want to dual boot), find a boot manager program as Anon suggested, so you could choose which drive to boot from.

Brent, that sounds like a logical idea. Seems similar to what Anon suggested too.

I think tomorrow is the day to try them out.

Thanks for the input.

I will install Windows XP in my both C & D drives.But i want to delete the d: drive partition and save the contents of that drive