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I see. Thank you for your advise about my hard drive size. I don't
think I can hook up a 2nd hard drive to my pc. There isn't enough space
for that according to some systems guy I spoke to at work. He also
seemed to think that there wasn't the right connection inside or
something. For the moment I will leave my poor pc alone. I will use xp
on the laptop I plan to buy and keep win98se on my old pc, well unless I
get the urge to upgrade it to xp but I think from what people have said
here that, that would be a bad idea.
Thanks again
Menno Hershberger Wrote:
> PSYCHOPIXIE PSYCHOPIXIE.1lj4by@news.win98banter.com wrote in
> newsSYCHOPIXIE.1lj4by@news.win98banter.com:
> -
>
> Thank you for muddling through my very inexperienced questions and
> ideas. I was reading about creating partitions in a ''all about
> windows' sort of book and it makes it sound a bit risky for a novice
> like me. My hard drive size is about 13.5gb and there is about 5gb
> free at present but I could fairly easily free up more by
> uninstalling
> one of the many programs I never use. As I mentioned I use windows
> 98se and the processor speed is about 850mhz. From what I've read I
> personally would like to create a partition so that win98se runs on
> one
> side and xp on the other but I don't want either to know about each
> other. So do I install the partition creating program and hope for
> the
> best and then install xp on the side I want? I have never even used a
> pc with partitions so I haven't a clue. Thanks again.-
>
> If your time is worth anything, you'd be better off to buy another
> hard
> drive. New ones aren't that high anymore and you might pick up a used
> 20-
> 30 gig drive on eBay for little or nothing.
> Just hook it up as slave and install XP on that. If you do a standard
> installation with the XP CD, it will give you the option to install it
> on
> the second partiton (second drive in this case). After you get it
> installed, you'll have the option to boot into XP or 98 when you boot
> up.
> Your Windows 98 files will be visible from XP, but your XP drive will
> not
> be visible from Windows 98. Unless you choose to format the second
> drive
> in Fat 32 instead of NTFS (not recommended).
> If you try to partiton your present drive (which can be dangerous) you
> will severely limit the amount of free disk space you have for both
> systems.
>
> --
> --- A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother. ---
--
PSYCHOPIXIE
I see. Thank you for your advise about my hard drive size. I don't
think I can hook up a 2nd hard drive to my pc. There isn't enough space
for that according to some systems guy I spoke to at work. He also
seemed to think that there wasn't the right connection inside or
something. For the moment I will leave my poor pc alone. I will use xp
on the laptop I plan to buy and keep win98se on my old pc, well unless I
get the urge to upgrade it to xp but I think from what people have said
here that, that would be a bad idea.
Thanks again
Menno Hershberger Wrote:
> PSYCHOPIXIE PSYCHOPIXIE.1lj4by@news.win98banter.com wrote in
> newsSYCHOPIXIE.1lj4by@news.win98banter.com:
> -
>
> Thank you for muddling through my very inexperienced questions and
> ideas. I was reading about creating partitions in a ''all about
> windows' sort of book and it makes it sound a bit risky for a novice
> like me. My hard drive size is about 13.5gb and there is about 5gb
> free at present but I could fairly easily free up more by
> uninstalling
> one of the many programs I never use. As I mentioned I use windows
> 98se and the processor speed is about 850mhz. From what I've read I
> personally would like to create a partition so that win98se runs on
> one
> side and xp on the other but I don't want either to know about each
> other. So do I install the partition creating program and hope for
> the
> best and then install xp on the side I want? I have never even used a
> pc with partitions so I haven't a clue. Thanks again.-
>
> If your time is worth anything, you'd be better off to buy another
> hard
> drive. New ones aren't that high anymore and you might pick up a used
> 20-
> 30 gig drive on eBay for little or nothing.
> Just hook it up as slave and install XP on that. If you do a standard
> installation with the XP CD, it will give you the option to install it
> on
> the second partiton (second drive in this case). After you get it
> installed, you'll have the option to boot into XP or 98 when you boot
> up.
> Your Windows 98 files will be visible from XP, but your XP drive will
> not
> be visible from Windows 98. Unless you choose to format the second
> drive
> in Fat 32 instead of NTFS (not recommended).
> If you try to partiton your present drive (which can be dangerous) you
> will severely limit the amount of free disk space you have for both
> systems.
>
> --
> --- A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother. ---
--
PSYCHOPIXIE