I have an older drive with Win 98 and Win 2k on it, the Win98 parition is the current active partition and all the boot files reside there. I installed a nice new drive upon which I installed Win2k and I use this as my default OS. I have Partition Magic 8.0 to use as a tool to manage this whole thing. I want to set up Win98 on my new drive and get rid of both OSes on the old drive.
My strategy was to set the empty partition on my new drive (partition intended for Win98) active and install Win98 on it and then use fixboot or fixmbr to get my Win2k bootable again. Worse for worse if I couldn't get my Win2k to boot, I would have used my nice new Win2k SP3 slipstream CD to reinstall Win2k SP3. Using Partition Magic I set the empty partition on my new disc to active, but I found that it still booted off my old drive. When I opened up Partition Magic it showed 2 active partitions - one on each drive. It calls my old drive "drive1" and my new drive "drive2." How do I get it to boot off my new drive? Do I need to switch IDE cables to do that? Partition Magic won't let me remove the active attribute of the Win98 partition on my old drive, and it won't let me change the boot order (or change drive 1 to drive 2). How do I overcome these problems?
Thanks for any help you can offer.
My strategy was to set the empty partition on my new drive (partition intended for Win98) active and install Win98 on it and then use fixboot or fixmbr to get my Win2k bootable again. Worse for worse if I couldn't get my Win2k to boot, I would have used my nice new Win2k SP3 slipstream CD to reinstall Win2k SP3. Using Partition Magic I set the empty partition on my new disc to active, but I found that it still booted off my old drive. When I opened up Partition Magic it showed 2 active partitions - one on each drive. It calls my old drive "drive1" and my new drive "drive2." How do I get it to boot off my new drive? Do I need to switch IDE cables to do that? Partition Magic won't let me remove the active attribute of the Win98 partition on my old drive, and it won't let me change the boot order (or change drive 1 to drive 2). How do I overcome these problems?
Thanks for any help you can offer.
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