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converting Old 98OS to XP

Discussion in 'Windows XP' started by Baldy, 2004/04/20.

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  1. 2004/04/20
    Baldy

    Baldy Inactive Thread Starter

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    In order to protect my 98se files, programs etc. I installed a second hard drive (20gb), duplicated orginal C: over to it and then tried to install XP Home on it. Won't upgrade. Disconnected 98 and installed XP on the 2nd HD after formating it for NTFS. After hooking 98 back up and dual booting to XP, it won't regonize the 98 drive. Duplicated 98 over to USBII and tried to convert from there using dos command "convert J: /fs:ntfs" and it gave error wrong drive vol. Tried many different volumes - no go. Went to J:\ and typed "convert J: /fs:ntfs" and got the message to type in vol for J:. Typed Vol at J:\ to make sure had right label etc and tried again.
    Any help appreciated.
    Baldy
     
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  2. 2004/04/20
    PeteC

    PeteC SuperGeek Staff

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    Some basics ....

    When you install two operating systems - on different partitions or drives - each operating system must be hidden from the other in order for either to work.

    Thus if you have XP on one drive/partition and 98 on another drive/partition XP will not see that drive/partition and clearly it will not see any data on that drive either. The solution is to have your data on a separate partition/drive that both OS's can access. i.e FAT 32.

    Win 98 is not capable of accessing drives formatted NTFS, but XP on NTFS can access FAT drives.

    Programs must be installed on both OS partitions/drives as much of their content resides within Windows folders.

    I don't quite get the jist of what you have done - especially "Duplicated 98 over to USBII ", but simply copying the drive contents to another drive does not necessarily render that drive bootable. Clearly XP did not recognise that drive as bootable.
     
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  4. 2004/04/20
    Baldy

    Baldy Inactive Thread Starter

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    Goal

    I've imaged the 98 drive over to the usbII
    I'm wanting to load all old programs, data, etc into XP.
     
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  5. 2004/04/21
    TonyT

    TonyT SuperGeek Staff

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    Use XP to copy the data or to just read the backed up data files. (txt, html, doc, etc)

    To use your old programs on XP you MUST install them on XP.
     
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  6. 2004/04/21
    Baldy

    Baldy Inactive Thread Starter

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    Upgrade

    Think I have found the problem. I was told this disk would upgrade 98 into it, but seems there is another version that does the upgrade. This one isn't registered yet, so I'm going to try and swap for the upgrade version.
    Thanks
     
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