I would like any advice available please.
I am running win xp pro with a maxtor 40gb hard drive.I still have the hard drive from my original PC which ran win 98 se.I am hoping to install the old hard drive to give more storage space etc for video editing.I only have a rough idea of what is involved but would like to give it a go.
Apart from the obvious difficulty I will have in fitting the drive ( I am am a novice) are there any problems I may have overlooked, like file systems being different.Will the inf on the old drive be accessable or will I have to format the drive. Will I blow up my PC!!!
Thanks

I've just done that have you still got your old machine? what I did was format the old drive to clear every thing off it then installed in in to this PC running XP home ....................

Make sure you have the jumper settings set as master and slave........it's not as daunting as it sounds

here www.buildyourown.org.uk/misc.asp

If you need any more help there are loads of people on this useful forum who'll gladly help out

Thanks Jeff.
I havn't got the old pc just the drive which is still loaded with win 98.
I agree with you about the forum, very useful.
Thanks again

Do you want to retain your info? If so it will be recognized as the next availabe drive letter. If you dont, then you can go into Computer Management and wipe out the current partition, put a new partition and then format as NTFS.

The key here is that XP does not auto assign the next HDD Drive letter like Dos based systems did. You may remember that you A and B as floppies, C, D, E etc were HDD or CDD. If you had a hard drive and a CD Rom it was C and D, add another HDD now it was C and D were the HDD and E was the CD Rom. XP makes the new HDD E instead of bumping the CD.

Thanks
I'd like to retain some of the info but if this does'nt work I won't be losing sleep over it.
when you say it will be recognised will it be read by win xp and used as though it was still win 98 (probably a stupid question but I'm a stupid person) I think what I am trying to ask is can the drive be used as though it was still in the old PC?
Thanks again

You can't boot to it unless you have a dual boot setup on the primary, but all the files will still be able to be read by XP.

I'll give it a go over the weekend and I'll let you know how I get on.
Thank you very much for the help and interest.

Done it.
No problems at all,easy thanks to you guys.
The old hard drive was recognised and installed
automatically and all my old stuff is still there.
I'm so pleased I've made another donation.
Thanks