connie.kamrowski at agric.nsw.gov.au
connie.kamrowski at agric.nsw.gov.au
Sun Dec 7 16:55:09 CST 2003
Ken,
Before getting my current position I was a tech help analyst for 3 years.
1. You can plug a second HDD into a winXP machine and have no conflict on
boot. This is because the Boot.ini will look to the master drive for the
windows install, If it did happen to pick up the second OS install it will
ask which one you want to run. To do this you WILL need to set the win98
drive to slave if you are plugging them both into one IDE cable.
2. your only issue is going to be if the win98 machine is not formatted in
FAT32 ... if this is the case then winXP will not see the drive.
I have done this on probably 50 occassions and have had it work 98% of
these.
Connie Kamrowski
Analyst/Programmer
Information Technology
NSW Agriculture
Orange
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No, Win98 is on the hard drive, not a secondary drive. So it sounds
like there would be a conflict between the two hard drives trying to run
their respective OS. So it sounds like that is not an option. Then, is
connecting the two computers via their NICs an option or should I tell
him to get ready for a long weekend swapping files with a floppy disk?
Ken Stoker
Technology Commercialization
Information Systems Administrator
PH: (509) 375-3758
FAX: (509) 375-6731
E-mail: Kenneth.Stoker at pnl.gov
-----Original Message-----
From: Charlotte Foust [mailto:cfoust at infostatsystems.com]
Sent: Friday, December 05, 2003 3:44 PM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: RE: [AccessD] Help with moving files from one hard drive to
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Recognizing it isn't enough, even if it works. Remember, the operating
system is on the hard drive, unless this is a secondary drive.
Charlotte Foust
-----Original Message-----
From: Stoker, Kenneth E [mailto:Kenneth.Stoker at pnl.gov]
Sent: Friday, December 05, 2003 3:36 PM
To: dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com; AccessD at databaseadvisors.com
Subject: [AccessD] Help with moving files from one hard drive to another
(Cross posted)
Everyone,
I have a co-worker who came to me and asked me how to get the files off
his old computer onto his new computer. First questions I asked were do
you have any larger capacity media drives, cd burner, zip drive, etc.
Answer is no. So, I thought it should be possible for him to open his
old computer, take out the hard drive, put it in his new computer and
the new computer on boot up should recognize the older hard drive. Is
this correct?
Old machine: PII 233MHz running Win98
New machine: PIV 2.66 GHz running WinXP Pro.
Another option is that he says both machines have NICs. Can he just
plug the two machines together through the NICs and have them recognize
each other?
I have to admit that I haven't tried to do things this way myself so I
hope that some extra guidance can help us get this right.
Any help offered is greatly appreciated.
Ken Stoker
Technology Commercialization
Information Systems Administrator
PH: (509) 375-3758
FAX: (509) 375-6731
E-mail: Kenneth.Stoker at pnl.gov
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