Adding a Second (pre-used) Drive
Question: I have a Pentium III running WIN 98 and want to install another hard drive,which was out of another computer but it is running Win Me. I want to still use WIN 98 but want to retrieve programs and use the second hard drive as back up. Do I need to uninstall Win Me from the hard drive and how do I setup my computer to run both drives?
Eddie Zapolskis
Answer:Make sure that the current hard drive has the jumpers on it configured as Master and change the jumper on the hard drive you are installing to the Slave position and attach it to the other connector on the same cable.
If you have a cd drive in that position move the cd drive to the cable that comes from the next socket over on the motherboard. Doing it this way will give the fastest access times to both drives and will set the new drive as D: (your cd drive will be moved to E: but that is going to happen rehgardless of which hard drive is which).
As the computer will boot from C: your existing operating system will be the one that runs.
You can then delete whatever files you don't want from the second drive. If there are any programs on the second drive that you want to run you will have to reinstall them so that the operating system recognises them properly.
