New drive installed..running well after resolving problems with Maxtor
installation disk adding a DDO. See later post "new hard drive problem"

All OK now.
Thanks to everyone for the suggestions.
"Gary S. Terhune" wrote in message
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Depends... Are the partitions on your "D" drive (the second hard drive)
Primary partitions or is it an Extended Partition with three Volumes
inside it?

What Rick said, however, has serious merit. Keep the OS partition at max
8GB/FAT32. Here's my standard setup for a system like yours. All
partitions are FAT32. Assumes you have no desire to multi-boot.

HDD0 (your new one, which, by the way, is only ~37.5 GB measured in
software terms)

Partition 1 = 8GB Primary
The rest of the disk as Extended Partition with the following Volumes:
--4 GB D:\ TEMP (for TEMP and Temporary Internet Files, etc.)
--8 GB (max) E:\PROGRAMS (program files, like OS files, should be on FAT32
partition(s) no larger than 8GB)
--12 GB F:\DATA (personal data stores, My Documents, email storage, etc.)
--Remainder of ~5-6 GB for storage of program installation files, whether
downloaded or moved to HD from other media for faster access (like it's
wise to do with MS Office installation files before installing.)

Your second hard drive should be reserved for backup storage, at least, or
perhaps further large-file storage if needed. You might not need 8GB for
Programs, and 2GB is usually enough for TEMP unless you make it the WinZip
TEMP environment and then proceed to build a 2GB WinZip file. I've found
myself cramped on occasion with only 2GB for TEMP, but 4 has always been
plenty comfy.

We still don't know how your remaining good HD (second one) is arranged,
but if you're really emotionally invested in keeping those in order,
consider copying your current D, E, and F partitions to the new drive (in
an Extended partition after the 8 GB OS partition), then make the second
drive one big Extended partition, chop off a small "G" partition for TEMP
and use the rest for backup storage, etc.

--
Gary S. Terhune
MS MVP Shell/User
http://www.grystmill.com/articles/cleanboot.htm
http://www.grystmill.com/articles/security.htm

"MedRxMan" wrote in message
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I just completed a fresh install of Windows98SE of the current C:.
Every thing is now working great. The reason for a new HDD is due to some
recent signs of a failing hard drive. Do not have much data on the C
drive
as I do store most of my Data on the second hard Drive D:

If I purchase a 40GB HD and use PM to partition the new HD into 2 equal
20GB
partitions, how will that effect my current HD letter assignment.on My
second HDD which is currently D:E:F.

Do I correctly assume the new lettering (after partitioning the new 40GB
HD
into 2 equal partitions) will now be:
C:E:F:G ?

Thanks,
BL
"Rick Chauvin" wrote in message
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MedRxMan wrote:
My Windows98 SE PC currently has 2 hard drives installed.
A 29 GB C: and a 40GB second drive partioned with partiton magic into
D:,E:and F.

I want to replace my C:..Can I install a 40GB hard Drive and FDISK for
a
FAT32 and use the entire 40GB space as one partition, then restore an
image
made with Drive image and allow Drive image to resize the partition as
it
restores the image.

Yes, but... there are better ways and reasons.
For instance with FAT32 it's best to keep your OS C:\ partition under
8GB
not
only for best 4k cluster size efficiency, but as well for an OS you
don't
need anymore than 8GB anyway and besides it is so much faster to defrag
it,
etc... all of your non-os programs and storage is much better kept on
D:\
for storage; also since you are using DriveImage or any imager program
you
need a place to store your backup images of C:\ anyway! ..so since you
can't
store them on C:\ you need to put them on D:\ ..iow, make your C:\ 7GB
and
your D:\ whatever is leftover.

Instead of letting DriveImage decide, so since you already have
Partition
Magic then use it to make it to split up the 40 GB as indicated, and
then
might as well Fresh Install your W98SE to it. Partition Magic can
Format
&
Partition etc everything you need to do all in one app..

Rick