win98 and win xp hard drive transfer

[butch81385]

ok, i have a windows 98 hard drive and my windows xp computer. i want to get music from the windows xp hard drive and put it on the windows 98 hard drive. there is no NIC card (nor place to put one), no usb, nothing on the 98 computer

my question:
can i put the 98 hard drive in my xp computer as a slave, click and drag the files, then put it back into the 98 machine?

[John Prophet]

yes.

(I think, lol)

[EvilRick]

Yes, you should be able to do that.

If after you go to put it back in your 98 box and you get an "NTLDR" message, use a 9X/Me bootdisk and do 'FDISK /MBR'.

[butch81385]

now to ask a question that wasnt answered earlier (which may cause a problem with this)

the 98 machine only sees the 40 gig hd as 8 gig. if i put more info then 8 gigs, what will happen. is there anyway to get it to recognize all 40 gigs without reinstalling 98?

[EvilRick]

Why does it only recognize 8GB? 98 shouldn't be the reason for not seeing more than 8GB, that's the BIOS's fault.
I'd be a little leary copying anything to it if it only sees 8GB of the 40GB. If you copied 9GB's in XP and put the drive back in the 98 box, it may not do anything, and then again, it may never boot again.

[John Prophet]

first you have to get it to see the whole 40....I htink yousaid it was a real old dell?

Might have to use one of those cheesy "bios overlay" programs. (whats the one called..ez-bios?)

ORRRRRRRRRR, get something like an ata 100 controller card...but I wouldnt put that money into that comp..plus it might not even work cuz new cards sometimes want pci 2.2 slots and you might not have those in that old of a comp.

Then, if that much works, and it sees the rest of the 40....you would probably have to take a shot at using partition magic to resize and enlarge the partition....unless you could simply fdisk and put another partition on there to fill out the other 32 gigs.

JP

[twiztidtruckie]

Dont you have a cd-rw drive or dvd-rom drive to burn disks with? I would say that would be much less hassles.

Truckie

[butch81385]

ok, its a comcrap presario 2200
no usable pci slot
i would like to transfer about 11 gigs of info (thats a lot of cds, and it doesnt have a dvd rom)

would updating the bios (or using a bios overlay) cause for reformatting?
how would i go about doing this?

[John Prophet]

ya got a spare hard drive laying around?? That would be the easiest way......just put the spare on in place of the cdr....boot up...(format the spare drive if needed etc)...drag the wanted files over to it...take it out...go slap it in on the XP machine...good to go.

[butch81385]

im still stuck with the problem of the 8 gig limit....