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Marcus
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| Posted on Sunday, January 18, 2004 - 04:42 pm: |
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I'm a novice, so please bare with me. I just replaced my primary computer with a new sony viao. I want to add the old HD from my primary computer to my kids computer (I'm doing this to keep the info on the old HD readily avalible.) The kids computer is running on windows95 and the HD I am adding is running on windows98. I tried to install the old HD by changing the jumpers to Slave and I changed the kids HD to Master. I powered up the kids computer, Window95 loaded properly, however I could not locate the added HD through the explorer or using the "add new hardware" wizard from the control panel. Please advise.
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Mike
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| Posted on Sunday, January 18, 2004 - 05:14 pm: |
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To add a harddrive that has an OS/windows on it all ready, you would have to go into that harddrives Windows Device Manager and remove everything listed, mouse would be the last thing, then shut it down and hook it up to the new Mobo, just that harddrive as master, windows should find all the necessary info. You would need all the driver disks etc, after, to update some of the devices that have errors in the device manager. To boot 2 os on the same machine 98 and 95 you would need a Boot Manager, like Boot Magic. The best thing to do is format the drive and reinstall windows after, you would need a windows disk not a restore disk that may have come with the other computer. Then install a boot manager and use that to prepare the other Slave drive for an OS ( Operating System ), then install 95. I have upgraded computers with new mobos, ram, graphics card and have had windows on the drive and it worked ok, you do have some problems and need to know how to correct them, so in short, if you are a novice at this, it maybe better to reformat that 98 drive and reinstall everything after you have it slaved off the other drive or use it as the master drive. then reformat the 95 drive and reinstall it as the slave drive.
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Marcus
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| Posted on Sunday, January 18, 2004 - 05:45 pm: |
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Mike,
It does not look good. My purpose for going thru this exercise was to have the docs. from my old Hardrive readily availible. I assume reformating would erase all the data on both HDs.
Thanks.
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Gary
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| Posted on Sunday, January 18, 2004 - 08:08 pm: |
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If the 95 computer recognised the second hard drive, you should be able to click (My computer icon) & it should show up there as drive (D) if it's not there, then your bios didn't see it? You then would have to go into your bios setup feature & have it detect it for you. Depending on your computer, you can hit the (F1 key or the delete key or possibly the F2 key when your computer is getting ready to boot.This will put you in the setup mode. Do NOT alter anything else in there!
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Mike
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| Posted on Sunday, January 18, 2004 - 09:55 pm: |
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I would save any doc files to a cd or floppy disk, then after you reinstall the programs put the docs, saved games etc, back in the same folders you save them from. Gary 95 will not recognize 98, you have to use a boot manager and boot to the diferent drives seperately, if there were only docs and text files or saved downloads, then windows would see it, also is 95 a fat file system or fat 32 like 98. Yes Marcus reformating would erase all the data, but like I said above save all the Doc, text files etc. to a floppy, then reinstall them, you can copy and paste them, some programs have a backup feature built in.
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Gary
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| Posted on Sunday, January 18, 2004 - 10:15 pm: |
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Hummm... Learn something new every day, I was assuming win 95 would see the files on the second drive as I had win98 as my primary system & win 95 was installed on a second HHD. & win 98 saw those files, kinda of like Winxp can see win 98 but not vice versa....
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Gary
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| Posted on Sunday, January 18, 2004 - 10:29 pm: |
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http://members.shaw.ca/bootitng/ you might want to try this , I've used it as doing what your trying to do.
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Mike
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| Posted on Monday, January 19, 2004 - 05:09 pm: |
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98 might see 95s files, but I do not think 95 can see 98s, without the boot manager, actually I haven't used 95 in years, lol, so I can't say that I am 100% about it. I would take the 98 drive remove everything in the DM and then have that as the main drive the do the same with 95, slave it and see if 98 see's the 95 drive, if it does , load a boot manager and good to go, Dual Boot.
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