"DJW" wrote in message
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I want to install new hard drive I will set the jumpers to master and
cable select that I will run fdisk and then install windows 98SE. Do I
have to do anything in order to make it a bootable hard disk?

1. The CABLE SELECT setting works only when you
have the approprate data cable, unmentioned here.

2. After FDISK you need to FORMAT any disk drive
before it becomes usable. Have a look at procedures
and checklists at
http://home.satx.rr.com/badour/html/w98_restore.html

Also if I install the old drive as the slave and remove the master
jumper still with the older OS windows 98 will all hell break loss at
startup. Will the CPU not know what drive to boot with?

3. The places where a PC looks for bootup code are
governed by BIOS settings. The BIOS setting for "hard
drive" looks to whichever hard drive is recognized by
FDISK as a Primary DOS partition.

Can a slave be booted from? As with a Mac could I have multiple OSs on
different volumes and boot from which ever I force to do?

4. Special-purpose Boot Manager software can run a
PC Windows with two or more optional boot drives. The
main question is what PC tasks you want to enable
that requires booting any OS different from your primary
one. Any hard drive can be made bootable, but vanilla
Windows expects only one (Primary DOS) partition to
be bootable.

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Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs
(Ottawa, Canada)