Some help required here,

 

just bought a new base unit to replace my ageing P2 266, and I was thinking about the Hard drives. The new PC will be running Win 98 SE, and the current one is Win 95 - is there any way I can copy the old HD data to the new HD, or even put the old HD in the new PC? Don't want to lose all my programs/documents.

 

Any help greatly appreciated

The best way to do it is install Windows 98 on the new PC then put your old drive in as a second drive and copy your data over then re-install the programs. You need to know what to copy over and what not though.

 

Another way to do it (but may cause driver problems) would be to upgrade your current PC to Win98 then use a drive image/copy utility like Partition Magic or something to copy the old drive to the new one.

Install the new drive with the upgraded Windows into the new PC and hope it boots up and install the hardware drivers.

then you can format your old drive as spare storage.

 

Just be carefull about connecting a very old drive on the same IDE channel as a new drive. I did this recently and it corrupted the new drive with windows on it during copying.

Worked fine with both drives on different channels/controllers.

cheers Chris, I'll have a look and see what I can do.

An quick and easy get round would be to bung a cheapo ethernet card in to both PCs and network them together.

Why Don't, you place your old hard Drive in Your new Computer as

a Slave. this is a pin setting on the back of the Drive. you might be able to use your existing IDE Cable, but if its not long enough you can buy a longer one from a Computer Shop for a Couple of Quid. And as the system boots from the C: drive it won't even matter than you have windows 95 on the slave, as it's the D: drive.

all good suggestions - gues I'll wait for the new one to turn up and give it a go!!

 

ta for your help