If I want to upgrade from 98 to XP and I have two hard drives, do I have to reformat both drives? My second drive has around 20 gig of stored files on it, and I really don't want to back all of that up. Plus my cd burner and software is giving me problems, along with my system. (That's why I want to switch, I have been running my one time installation of 98 since 99, it is about time). Any advice?
No you run XP on one drive and use the other as a secondary drive. I would reccommend disconnecting the drive you want to save just so you do not accidentally format it then install XP on the main drive after complete installation reconnect the other drive and you should be good to go. The only problems I can foresee you running into are boot problems. Those should be solvable in your CMOS settings. CK
Thanks. That's what I figured. I might then copy everything over to my primary drive, format the secondary, then copy it back over. Just for both to be formatted the same? Does that matter at all?
I would do that after the fresh install. I would go in this order: 1) Disconect secondary drive 2) Install XP on primary drive 3) Reconnect Secondary drive 4) Copy files from the Secondary drive to Primary drive 5) Format secondary drive in NTSF format 6) move files from Primary drive back to Secondary drive.
