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anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>>
>> The computer shop formatted the new disk drive as Master
> and put Win XP on it and designated the old drive as Slave
> with Win 98 left in place. The Master drive w/ Win XP will
> not recognize my modem and I must use a second computer
> (laptop) to get on-line and ask for help. Can I partition
> the drives so that I can get my modem and printers to work
> through the Win 98 program and STILL have Win XP (since I
> paid for it, it would be nice to keep it.)
>> "Elaine" wrote:
>>
>>> I was running Win 98 on my computer and recently had a
>>> second hard drive installed. The new drive was designated
>>> the Master and Win XP was instslled on it. Now my computer
>>> will not recognize my modem which was installed just two
>>> months ago. The modem manufacturer could not help me with
>>> the problem so I plan to reformat the new hard drive and
>>> re-install Win 98. My question is: How do I reformat the
>>> hard drive?
>>> When you installed the 2nd hard drive, you should have
> left the first hard drive as Master and the new hard drive
> as Slave. Did you do this? Please answer and come back
> to me, fitting a 2nd hard drive is easy, you should have no
> need to format. Bye for now.
>> .
Have you checked the modem and printer manufacturers web site for XP
compatible drivers? XP compatible modems are very cheap, if the modem does
not have XP support.
Sounds like Win 98 is still installed on the slave drive, so you can
probably disconnect the XP hard drive and connect the Win 98 drive back to
the master. Boot with a Win 98 startup disk and type sys C: at the A: prompt
press ENTER. Then type fixmbr at the prompt press ENTER. Remove the Startup
disk and reboot. if none of the root files were deleted, it should boot into
Win 98.
Do not reconnect the XP hard drive as the slave unless you intend to wipe
the drive and format the drive in fat 32.
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