Adding Win98 External Enclosure HDD to Win2K PC?

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I have an older PC with Win98 on the HDD. I'd like to take it out and
use an external enclosure to add this drive to a PC with Win2000 Pro.
Are there any problems associated with having an external drive
formatted with an OS different from the PC OS? I want to make sure
whatever I do will preserve the data on the old drive.
Thanks,
Alex T.

 

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You should have no problems, as long as you don't try to boot from the Win98
drive.

Win2K can read any file system Win98 could.

These USB <-> HD units work pretty well for this:

http://www.cyberguys.com/templates/searchdetail.asp?T1=163+0173

http://www.cyberguys.com/templates/searchdetail.asp?T1=163+0168

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"ALX2000" <alx2000@go.com> wrote in message
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> I have an older PC with Win98 on the HDD. I'd like to take it out and
> use an external enclosure to add this drive to a PC with Win2000 Pro.
> Are there any problems associated with having an external drive
> formatted with an OS different from the PC OS? I want to make sure
> whatever I do will preserve the data on the old drive.
> Thanks,
> Alex T.
>