I have a hard drive with windows Me on one partition and my files and programs on the second partition,however tomorrow i am moving and i only want to take my hard drive with me since there will be a computer there already. the computer there also has a operating system i believe windows 98 or Me, I would like to put in my hard drive as the slave and only have the first hard frive see the files so i can move the files back and forth between the 2 hard drives. will the operating system on my hard drive conflict with the other hard drive? Could someone please tell me how to set this up, ty in advance

hello yes the o/s will conflict with out a third part boot manageing program. if this hd is not to be used with this o/s agian you could boot to dos with m.e disk and delete the o/s files and than fdisk /mbr than shut off computer and remove hd.as it will be ready to install in other computer. and it will work just fine as a slave drive in other computer. but your o/s will be gone if you leave the c: windows\options\cabs\setup.exe files in tact you can than reinstall the o/s on your old computer at a latter date with out loosing data provideing you leave enough room on hd.

WAWA I have read a lot of your posts and this is the only one I disagree with.If you remove the slave(and all FAT files as we all know are written to the master.) How will the new OS know where they are at? The following is from the Computer Decktop Encyclopedia. FAT (File Allocation Table) The part of the DOS, Windows and OS/2 file system that keeps track of where data is stored on disk. When the disk is high-level formatted, the FAT is recorded twice and contains a table with an entry for each disk cluster. The directory list, which contains file name, extension, date, etc., points to the FAT entry where the file starts. If a file is larger than one cluster, the first FAT entry points to the next FAT entry where the second cluster of the file is stored and so on to the end of the file. If a cluster becomes damaged, its FAT entry is marked as such and that cluster is not used again. The original 16-bit version of the FAT, which is widely used, is limited to 2GB hard drives. The 32-bit version (FAT32) became available with Windows 95 in late 1996 and increases the limit to 2TB. See VFAT and FAT32. Kallas One thing that I have found in my computer repair field isthat (sometimes) you can explore the HD that has the programs installed on it and click the execution icon for the program. If it works send a shortcut to your decktop and then you don't have to reinstall the program. But just changing out the HD's I don't think it will work. Email me if I am wrong because I allways what to learn something new.

stump reread both posts and you may actually see whats going on.