Sorry another one - this time about a new hdd and XP
Sorry, am full of questions today! I have in my possession a nice shiny new hdd with 120gb of capacity and a copy of windows XP. My current operating system is Win 98se and my present drive of 40gb is just about full. I tried upgrading to XP about 6 months ago but got a warning that lots of my drivers were out of date. I was loath to accept the upgrade as I wasn't sure how many of my devices would run under XP following the upgrade and if there were compatible drivers around.
I have seen on this forum a few comments along the lines of "a clean install of XP is the best". That got me thinking...
Is it possible to install XP onto my new hdd (once it is formatted I guess)? Presumably I would boot up as normal with Win 98se still running on the old hdd? Then insert the XP installation disks but change the destination to be the "new" hdd? Then what:-
- install all the drivers onto the new hdd? (XP versions I guess)
- install all my software onto "new" hdd
- copy across data to new hdd
- reformat "old" hdd so that I would have additional storage and get rid of any nastys lurking there?
- change bios to boot from "new" hdd
Any thoughts or suggestions about the best way to go about it would be much appreciated.