Harddisk with Win98SE from one computer to another

Hello all!

A friend of mine has an old (not old-ish but OLD like Pentium 100-150 MHz and 32 MB RAM) computer with Win98SE installed.
I have a P2/350 with 128 MB RAM based computer without a harddisk.
Would it be possible to just fit his HDD in the other one and Win98SE would be happy about it?

Thanks for Your time,
Christer

 

Hi merlin!

It´s a 19 GB, in one partition, harddisk. As You may understand, the computer didn´t have such a large harddisk when it was new, that´s a later substitution.

The current computer has no CD-burner so, burning the data to a CD (one would suffice) is not an option, unless I install a burner.

I´m concerned with the "safety" of the data, the computer belongs to our vice-treasurer in our flying club ...... ...... or maybe I´ll just fly as much as time permits and then blow my debt away ...... ...... !

This probably should be in the XP forum but anyway:

Would XP go nuts if I put his harddisk, with Win98SE on an active partition, in my mobile rack to copy his data to a CD?

Christer

 

Hi Dave,

I´ve heard that it is possible with Win98 as opposed to WinXP and You confirmed what I thought that I knew.

All my drives are set as Cable Select and the rack is connected to the Slave connector on the Primary.

Ryder,
thanks for reminding me!

I´ll jumper it to CS since that works very well on the current four drives in my system.

merlin,

The harddisk belongs to a friend who wants to move it to another computer, still to be used as the boot drive.
His data will be contained on one CD so my idea is to burn to a CD when the harddisk is in my mobile rack in my system.

If the harddisk works well in the new environment, I have wasted a CD on the alter of security.

If it doesn´t work, I´ll wipe the harddisk, partition in two, install Win98 clean and put his data back.

I´ll post back with the results.

Christer

 

A little feedback:

I moved the HDD today, after having backed up all essential data to a spare HDD which I had in a drawer.

It went well. Windows 98SE started detecting all the new hardware and with two exceptions, installed it automatically.

The two exceptions were the Network Card and the Graphics Card. I had no drivers for those two and had no time to search the internet for a possible download.
The first problem was resolved by removing the Network Card, since he is on a dialup modem anyway.
The second problem was resolved by swapping the Graphics Card between the new(er) and old(er) computers.

Afterwards, I had to do some spring cleaning, such as deleting drivers for old(er) hardware.

My friend is happy and sees the new(er) computer as an improvement and that's what counts, isn't it?

Christer

 

Hi merlin!

Well, not that impressive! The difficult thing was to identify the new(er) cards and I didn´t have the time. I took the easy way out and removed the NIC and substituted the old(er) graphics card for the new(er).

I posted back to let others, who were in doubt that it would work, know that it did work.

Christer