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| 50742 | 2002-05-25 23:35:00 | I have upgraded my hard drive and installed the old (win98) drive into an older (win95) machine. It has been designated drive D. How do I make this machine boot up on the win 98 drive instead of win 95? Should I let scandisk rebuild the partition table? Thanks for any help. | Guest (0) | ||
| 50743 | 2002-05-26 01:18:00 | You could swap the slave and master jumpers on the two hard drives, or you could change the boot order in CMOS on the machine to D: then C: (if it will let you). I think changing jumpers would be best, because then you would have all the software installed on the win98 drive working without hacks to registry and so forth. If it boots as D, then nothing else will work and would be a hassle. robo. |
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| 50744 | 2002-05-26 06:06:00 | Having done as Robo suggests and changed the jumpers making the Win98 HDD the C: drive, then you need to boot into Safe Mode and go into Device Manager, and remove every, absolutely, every device, including PCI etc, removing the mouse driver last of all. Then reboot and let Windows re-detect all the new hardware in the computer, as it will be quite different to the previous setup. This will take time, and you may need to eventually get the appropriate drivers for eg. the motherboard and monitor. The Windows default ones should be ok though. Cheers |
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| 50745 | 2002-05-26 06:13:00 | Aw gee, I forgot to say it's much easier on Windows to remove any sound card and modem first, and let Windows just detect the basic hardware setup. Then replace cards one at a time, reboot and let Windows detect the new card. Otherwise its asking a lot of Windows to do the whole setup in one hit without making an error. |
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