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Hello everyone,
It's been a very long time since I've been on Usenet, so please
forgive any netiquette faux pas...
I have what might be a bit of a tricky format of a Win98 machine...
It's P200MMX with two HDs. The master drive is the older and slower of
the two, and contains the system files the slave is the newer and
faster, and has windows installed on it.
I'd like to format both drives, click the newer faster one onto
'master' and install windows (98) onto it in full (i.e. a normal
install, with system files and the program on the this one drive). I'd
like to switch the older and slower HD to slave and leave it as just
an internal backup, as storage only.
So my question is, what should I do, and I guess at least as
importantly, in what order should I do it? I'm worried about
formatting the wrong drive first, and then being 'stuck' without
control of the machine to finish the format/reinstall.
As you can see I really don't know a lot about this kind of thing, and
although I've tried to research the different aspects of this problem
separately, the fact that what I'm trying to do is a little convoluted
isn't helping.
OK, I've searched this group as well as I can, but apologies if this
has been answered before.
I'll check this group as often as I can (twice a week at least) and
give extra details/clarification as they're needed.
Thanking you in advance,
Wawrzyniec.
It's been a very long time since I've been on Usenet, so please
forgive any netiquette faux pas...
I have what might be a bit of a tricky format of a Win98 machine...
It's P200MMX with two HDs. The master drive is the older and slower of
the two, and contains the system files the slave is the newer and
faster, and has windows installed on it.
I'd like to format both drives, click the newer faster one onto
'master' and install windows (98) onto it in full (i.e. a normal
install, with system files and the program on the this one drive). I'd
like to switch the older and slower HD to slave and leave it as just
an internal backup, as storage only.
So my question is, what should I do, and I guess at least as
importantly, in what order should I do it? I'm worried about
formatting the wrong drive first, and then being 'stuck' without
control of the machine to finish the format/reinstall.
As you can see I really don't know a lot about this kind of thing, and
although I've tried to research the different aspects of this problem
separately, the fact that what I'm trying to do is a little convoluted
isn't helping.
OK, I've searched this group as well as I can, but apologies if this
has been answered before.
I'll check this group as often as I can (twice a week at least) and
give extra details/clarification as they're needed.
Thanking you in advance,
Wawrzyniec.