On Thu, 5 Dec 2002 at 16:23:13 -0500 David R. Austen wrote: > I am contemplating the following strategy: Have a new hard disk > installed (it would be D:) and use that new drive as the default drive > and boot XP each time.
> My existing software would remain on the C drive, unless and until I > decide on the migration of some software. Eventually I would remove > the OS from that C drive. I used similar arrangements on my machines for several years, either out of the necessity to have two systems available or as a intermediate state when upgrading. Just be careful not to delete those critical XP system files on C (in the root directory) when removing Win98. IOW, don't boot from a DOS floppy and reformat drive C (I believe you can't do that when in XP, so you're safe there). That's the only thing I don't like about this approach: WinXP (NT, 2K) needs to put some system files on drive C. It makes backing up the system a little more tricky. Are you on TBOT? Please reply there if you want to continue on this, since this is really OT. -- Best regards, Ming-Li The Bat! 1.62 Beta/17 | WinXP SP-1 ________________________________________________ Current version is 1.61 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
