Win 98/XP question

[phodg]

Can a drive currently formatted as a Win 98 boot drive work as a slave in Win XP ? Or will the fact that it's a boot drive confuse XP, even though it will be connected as the D: drive and the PC will boot from XP on the C: drive ? The reason I'm asking is that I have a lot of data (~20GB) on the 98 drive that I don't want to lose. What I want to do is copy the data over to the XP drive and then reformat the 98 drive and use it as a D: drive within XP.
Thanks.

 

[mgpaulus]

Windows XP recognizes FAT & FAT32 partitions, so XP will see all the data on the drive. When you say connected as D: Drive, I assume you mean it will be a second Hard Disk, such as primary slave, or maybe secondary master/slave. If so, then XP will ignore the boot sector on the second hard drive, and should only recognize/boot from the primary hard drive. And, since you probably have D: formatted FAT32 in order to use it w/a 20GB drive, there's really no need to reformat the drive. You can leave it, and/or use it as is.

HTH

 

[phodg]

Excellent ! Thanks !