Moving Hard Drives

Scott

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My trusty 1994 GW P5-90 running Win95a with an Intel
Premier/PCI II motherboard, 1.6GB WD drive (boot drive)
and 13.6GB WD secondary drive on an Ultra controller card
is still going strong. My plan when the motherboard eventually
fails (yes, I know it can happen anytime) is to move both hard
drives to a GW E-3200 with Maverick JN440BX motherboard,
integrated sound and video card. I'm wondering what issues
I might run into as far as the Win95a hard drive recognizing
the new hardware setup? Or would I be better off installing
Win98 SE for the USB support and then reinstalling all the
programs? Another issue is my HP Scanjep 4P scanner with
SCSI card. I would hope there are Win98 drivers available
for it.

Thanks!
Scott
 

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I'd reformat the 1.6GB drive if you are going to continue to use it as the
master drive. New motherboard is kind of a major hardware
change...reformatt would be best. Plus, the Windows 98 upgrade would be
good. The secondary drive I assume you use for storage and such so it
should be okay. I moved my secondary 15.4 WD drive from a P5-133 to my P4
Perforamce 1400 okay. If it doesn't see it though because of the ez-bios
not being on the master anymore, you just boot up with a boot disk to the
dos prompt, then pop in the WD Data Lifeguard disk and type dlgez /mbr.

Dunno about the scanner, try here:
http://www.scanner-drivers.com/companies/456.htm

smith

"Scott" <golden@uslink.net> wrote in message
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> My trusty 1994 GW P5-90 running Win95a with an Intel
> Premier/PCI II motherboard, 1.6GB WD drive (boot drive)
> and 13.6GB WD secondary drive on an Ultra controller card
> is still going strong. My plan when the motherboard eventually
> fails (yes, I know it can happen anytime) is to move both hard
> drives to a GW E-3200 with Maverick JN440BX motherboard,
> integrated sound and video card. I'm wondering what issues
> I might run into as far as the Win95a hard drive recognizing
> the new hardware setup? Or would I be better off installing
> Win98 SE for the USB support and then reinstalling all the
> programs? Another issue is my HP Scanjep 4P scanner with
> SCSI card. I would hope there are Win98 drivers available
> for it.
>
> Thanks!
> Scott
>
 
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Scott,

First, Windows 95a provides absolutely no USB support. If you need USB support,
Windows 98 or Windows 2000 or later will do it.

Second, the Intel Premier/PCI II motherboard is perhaps the first widely
produced Socket 5 PCI board, and its BIOS is a pretty ancient one, developed
before the computer biz standardized a lot of the BIOS handling of hard drives.
As a result, there some possibility that the 1.6GB drive might not boot when
installed in the E3200. Even if it did boot, you would still have to install
the drivers needed for it to work properly with the JN440BX board, the Intel
440BX chipset, and the other different chipsets in the E3200. So, once again,
installing Windows 98 (or later) would be a better choice. While you're at it,
might as well get a larger and newer hard drive than 1.6GB, small capacity and
likely to fail after all these years.

Finally, the SCSI adapter provided with the ScanJet 4p is an el cheapo solution,
but the scanner drivers and software you used with Windows 95 will work just
fine with Windows 98. If your E3200 has an available ISA bus slot, the SCSI
card is no problem to install. If you want better scanner performance, Adaptec
PCI SCSI cards are recommended, as long has they have either a 25- or a 50-pin
external connector to hook up a SCSI cable for the scanner. In other words, no
WIDE SCSI cards... Ben Myers

On Tue, 28 Sep 2004 01:29:52 -0600, Scott <golden@uslink.net> wrote:

>My trusty 1994 GW P5-90 running Win95a with an Intel
>Premier/PCI II motherboard, 1.6GB WD drive (boot drive)
>and 13.6GB WD secondary drive on an Ultra controller card
>is still going strong. My plan when the motherboard eventually
>fails (yes, I know it can happen anytime) is to move both hard
>drives to a GW E-3200 with Maverick JN440BX motherboard,
>integrated sound and video card. I'm wondering what issues
>I might run into as far as the Win95a hard drive recognizing
>the new hardware setup? Or would I be better off installing
>Win98 SE for the USB support and then reinstalling all the
>programs? Another issue is my HP Scanjep 4P scanner with
>SCSI card. I would hope there are Win98 drivers available
>for it.
>
>Thanks!
>Scott
>
 

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Ben,

You're right, of course. Although I don't use USB on my P5-90 (there are
other computers in the house), it makes sense to reformat with Win98SE
for the large drive support and replace the 1.6GB and 13.6GB drives with
a single 40GB drive...and partition the first 2 GB for the OS only. I should
be able to get the HP Scanjet scanner working under Win98, as well. It's
nearly 10 years old ($400 new) and still works great.

Scott

Ben Myers wrote:

> Scott,
>
> First, Windows 95a provides absolutely no USB support. If you need USB support,
> Windows 98 or Windows 2000 or later will do it.
>
> Second, the Intel Premier/PCI II motherboard is perhaps the first widely
> produced Socket 5 PCI board, and its BIOS is a pretty ancient one, developed
> before the computer biz standardized a lot of the BIOS handling of hard drives.
> As a result, there some possibility that the 1.6GB drive might not boot when
> installed in the E3200. Even if it did boot, you would still have to install
> the drivers needed for it to work properly with the JN440BX board, the Intel
> 440BX chipset, and the other different chipsets in the E3200. So, once again,
> installing Windows 98 (or later) would be a better choice. While you're at it,
> might as well get a larger and newer hard drive than 1.6GB, small capacity and
> likely to fail after all these years.
>
> Finally, the SCSI adapter provided with the ScanJet 4p is an el cheapo solution,
> but the scanner drivers and software you used with Windows 95 will work just
> fine with Windows 98. If your E3200 has an available ISA bus slot, the SCSI
> card is no problem to install. If you want better scanner performance, Adaptec
> PCI SCSI cards are recommended, as long has they have either a 25- or a 50-pin
> external connector to hook up a SCSI cable for the scanner. In other words, no
> WIDE SCSI cards... Ben Myers
>
> On Tue, 28 Sep 2004 01:29:52 -0600, Scott <golden@uslink.net> wrote:
>
> >My trusty 1994 GW P5-90 running Win95a with an Intel
> >Premier/PCI II motherboard, 1.6GB WD drive (boot drive)
> >and 13.6GB WD secondary drive on an Ultra controller card
> >is still going strong. My plan when the motherboard eventually
> >fails (yes, I know it can happen anytime) is to move both hard
> >drives to a GW E-3200 with Maverick JN440BX motherboard,
> >integrated sound and video card. I'm wondering what issues
> >I might run into as far as the Win95a hard drive recognizing
> >the new hardware setup? Or would I be better off installing
> >Win98 SE for the USB support and then reinstalling all the
> >programs? Another issue is my HP Scanjep 4P scanner with
> >SCSI card. I would hope there are Win98 drivers available
> >for it.
> >
> >Thanks!
> >Scott
> >