Need help connecting 2 PCs

It might be easier to remove the Win 98 hard drive and install it as a slave drive in the Win XP computer.

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thanks alot both of you, i wound up throwin it in as a secondary. I wasnt sure on how to do that because the ribbon going to my c drive didnt have a second connector to it. But i just unplugged one of my cd drives and used those connectors and everything seems to be working fine. Again, thanks alot this has been quite a pain for a while now.

Do you still have your old Win 98 install disks? If you have an actual Win98 disk (as opposed to, say, a restore disk for your PC) it may be possible to do a repair install. If it is Win98SE, it may be worth salvaging; if it is pre-SE Win98, I wouldn't bother. Save your data and move on.

If you have a Win ME disk, you could try a repair install, but ME is absolutely the worst version of Windows since 3.1. It is unstable and full of bugs. It was definitely a step backwards from 98SE, IMO. To make matters worse, XP came out very shortly after ME, and Microsoft promptly abandoned it.

I used to own a Win ME machine; I finally purchased an upgrade version of XP Home. Tremendous improvement. That is what I would recommend for you, too.

98SE is still usable, and worth repairing, especially for older hardware; ME is not worth the time, IMO.

If you go the XP route, back up your system first.

And, make sure you pay attention to the "audit" it will do of your system, listing the programs you currently have that will have problems running properly on XP.

If you have the hard drive space, the upgrade install will keep everything hanging around so you can, in effect, try out XP for awhile and still be able to revert to your ME system.

Once you decide you want to keep XP (and you will even though you may have to figure out what to do with those apps that don't work properly, etc.), you can tell Windows to delete the old files, and then you can convert the format of your hard drive from FAT32 to NTFS, and never look back.