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Installing additional hard drive and later XP
I'm getting ready to install a second hard drive in my system and in the
very near future will install Windows XP on it to dual boot with ME. I'm hoping someone here can answer my question. I know some of you have XP (probably ALL of you by now!) and maybe someone has done this before. I'm going to install a 100GB Maxtor and want to use Maxblast's option that will copy the Windows ME install from my current 20GB drive to the new drive so that the new 100GB drive will be my boot drive and the old 20GB drive will be additional storage. Then I'm going to install Windows XP on the new drive (while keeping ME on the new drive for dual booting) so that I can boot back to ME if need be without having to mess with the IDE cable attached to the two drives. In case you're wondering, I'll be doing a clean install of Windows XP using a Windows 98SE install CD for my qualifying prior OS (or whatever the correct terminology is!). My question is: will Maxblast wipe out the old drive when it moves Windows ME to the new drive? I'm hoping the answer is "No" but haven't been able to find anything definitive in the Maxtor installation guide or via Google concerning this issue. The installation guide does say "When MaxBlast is finished copying data to your new boot drive..." but I don't want to make any assumptions concerning this. I'd like the old drive available exactly as it is now so that it would be possible to boot into Windows ME from it (by changing its position on the IDE cable) in case something goes wrong with the "MEcopy"/"XP install" scenario. Thank you, Nancy |
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