Originally Posted by
tony draper
is it possible to copy some files I would like to keep from my old hard disk with win 98 op system across to the new disk by installing the old disk as a slave in the new machine?
Shouldn't be a problem, just make sure that it is set to be a slave and your XP drive is the boot disk (the latter will normally not be a problem but I have seen a fairly exotic BIOS which couldn't cope with two drives with boot sectors). Tell the BIOS to auto-detect the drive and with a bit of luck it will just appear in Explorer. Note all this is based on IDE/PATA drives, I haven't had any experience of SATA.