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To: belker who wrote (21072)6/29/2001 12:19:05 AM
From: Fargonaut  Read Replies (1) of 110652
 
belker,

Since you have installed a second hard drive you probably know this: your computer (most likely) has two host adapters, each with its own ribbon cable. One is the primary which has 2 plugs, one plug is for the 'master' disk and the other is for the 'slave'. The secondary looks the same and has plugs for a master and a slave. Depending on the maker, a hard disk may have jumpers which you should position to conform to its role as master or slave.

My procedure was like this:
-Moved old disk to slave position
-Installed new disk as primary master
-Booted up to DOS with startup floppy
-Partitioned and formatted with DOS programs, first partition active
-Installed W98 from CDs onto (smaller) active partition
-booted up W98
-Installed W2000 onto other partition
-Moved data from old disk to new as needed

W2000 will ask you during installation if you want NT file system or FAT32. NTFS is more secure and adds compression and encryption features. Downside is that W2000 can see files on the W98 partition but W98 can't see W2000. If you choose FAT32, both OSs can see the other.

There are some tutorials for this on the web. I can't seem to find any good ones right now, it must be past my bedtime :) I'll look again tomorrow if you get stuck.

Frank
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