Dual Boot PC

[2fast]

Dual Boot PC
Sort of a silly question here but>>>

I have a 40Gig HD installed with Win98SE installed on it. It is beginning to act up a little. (never been reformatted) approx. 3 years in operation. My idea is to install another HD and put WinXP on it and slave the current HD to the new Master. Wouldn't I be able to boot from either of the 2 drives? I don't really want to reformat the current drive and lose all my data.

Oh and the current drive is partioned into 2 20 gig drives.

The rest of system specs are as follows:
A7A266 Mobo
512 Meg DDR Ram
40 Gig Maxxtor HD
AMD Athlon 1GHZ (overclocked 1.333)
GeForce Ultra 2
Plextor CD/R/W
Case by 3D cool

thanks for any input.

If it ain't broke don't fix it

 

[karaknic]

All I would do is put em as slave and master and then if you want to boot to 98 for example press F11 (or whatever your srartup option in the POST is) and select the old drive with win 98 otherwise it should boot XP fine as far as I know.

 

[songoku]

This is what i think he means -
1. unplug the old drive and install the new one
2. Install XP on it
3. Set up your new drive as master and old as slave.
4. any time you want to boot to 98 press esc or f11 and select your old drive.

----or-----
This what i would do -
1. Install your new drive as master old as slave
2. set your bios to boot off of the slave drive!
3. install xp on your new drive
a. if you install from 98 then you would select "new installation".
b If you bootup from the cd to install, install as normal. Its the same as an "new install"


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[2fast]

That is exactly what I thought and was hoping to hear. This way I can get WinXP and and running Install the various Software Games etc. But still have the ability to run Old Reliable if need be Without any major issues. As previously stated I don't really want to reformat the old drive at least not without having a backup system ready to go in the event I need new drivers etc.
Thanks for the Input!!

If it ain't broke don't fix it

 

[jmecor]

ok here's another one:

removed the old hdd w/ 98.
install the new hdd (as master)
then install xp on the new hdd
then placed the old hdd w/ 98 (as slave).

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