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Installing drive

Mar 26, 2004 3:01AM PST

I have a Pentium 1 that I am running xp on. I wanted to add another hard drive to the system just to copy the mother board drivers that i downloaded to the c drive. This drive that i added is western digital with 6 jumper contacts. as is the c drive. It has windows 98 on it but i dont want to boot from it but it boots 98 anyway. when it boots then i can see the drive d in my computer which is supposed to be drive c booting. However when i click on the d drive which does have xp on it, i see no files. I have the c drive 1-2 jumped and the d with 3-4 jumped. can anyone help?

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Re:Installing drive
Mar 26, 2004 3:40AM PST

look for drive select / order / cable conflicts to resolve the order it is booting. I think because of possible file system conflicts (NTFS vs. FAT), you will probably want XP to boot rather than win98.

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Re:Installing drive
Mar 26, 2004 6:03PM PST

Hi Errolla
Let me guess what you are trying to say;You have Pentium 1 PC with Win98 running.Then you added an additional hard disk and installed WinXP on it.There is Win98 on "drive C" and "WinXP" on "drive D".Now your PC is booting with 98 and not WinXP.
You should check a few things first.
1>Did you install the new drive correctly i.e.. are the data cable and the power cable OK?
2>Did you partition and format the new drive as for WinXP?
If you want a dual boot PC you should install the WinXP on new drive and 98 on the old one.If the installation is correctly done, then during booting you should get option of the WinXP boot or Win98 boot.
VERY IMPORTANT-WinXP requires at least 350Mhz processor and 128MB of memory.If you donot have this either upgrade your PC or stick to Win98.Good Luck

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You read the original question incorrectly.
Mar 26, 2004 11:28PM PST

Your read the original mesage exactly backwards so your reply to this message is really not relevant.

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Re:You read the original question incorrectly.
Mar 27, 2004 1:21AM PST

THANKS FOR YOUR INTELLIGENT INPUT! MASTER

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The Correct Answer to your problem
Mar 26, 2004 11:32PM PST

Please ignore the other replies to your question, they do not have the correct answer, though Jconner did correctly mention the cause of the problem.

The reason you have it booting the wrong drive is because you have the jumpers set wrong, you probably have the old drive set to Alone and the new one set to master. You must jumper the old original boot drive as Master and the new one as slave. The jumpers should have markings telling you how to do that.

Since you didn't give us the model numbers of the drives it is impossible to tell you the exact correct settings, but settings Master and slave correctly will work.

As Jconner says, when you boot with Win98 an XP drive will normally show no files because it uses the NTFS disk format which is not supported in WIN98.

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Seeking some bright input
Mar 27, 2004 2:54AM PST

Hi Jeff
May be what I said was little offcourse, but do you really think that Errola's computer with a Pentium 1 Processor be able to run WinXP. If the computer has P1 processor, what chipset will it be having and the amount of RAM the chipset will handle.Even if the system is able to run WinXP will it be able to handle any softwares?I mentioned that"VERY IMPORTANT-WinXP requires at least 350Mhz processor and 128MB of memory.If you donot have this, either upgrade your PC or stick to Win98" which is polite way of saying to get a new PC.Looking forward to your comments.

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You need to read the original question again.
Mar 27, 2004 11:21PM PST

He ALREADY IS running Windows XP, he said that in his original message, which you apparently didn't read again, after I wrote that you got it backwards.

A P1 can easily support the 256-512meg that XP demands.

Even a 486 could support 256-512meg of memory, though I would never consider one for XP.

There is an install switch that allows you to install it on a system that has a processor slower than 350Mhz, I know that because I Beta tested XP before it came out and ran it on a 300Mhz P1 when I first started testing because that was the only spare system I had to run it on at the time.

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Re:You need to read the original question again.
Mar 28, 2004 12:07AM PST

Mr Moderator
I have read the first line that he has a P1 system with WinXP running.Also he added in the third line "It has windows 98 on it but i dont want to boot from it but it boots 98 anyway." in other words the system is not booting with WinXP.Please care to explain that if a system is not booting with WinXP, would you say that the system is running with WinXP?

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Re:Re:You need to read the original question again.
Mar 28, 2004 7:40AM PST

You really need to read the original message more carefully, if you had you would not be asking this.

He said the second drive he just put in had Win98 on it, and instead of getting the WIN XP he had been running he was getting Win XP. This is almost always because the drives are jumpered wrong.

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XP on Pentium 100 at...
Mar 28, 2004 12:00AM PST
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Re:Seeking some bright input
Mar 28, 2004 12:14AM PST

Hi Everybody thanks for your feedback. It was all interesting. Please stop fighting out there. First of all. Ive installed these drives many times. I am a electronics tech at this company where this problem is confusing me. I do changes and upgrades to the computer equipment to when needed We are low budget and we have Dell that meets those minumum requirements that some of you guy spoke of. The pentium 1 of course has 256K of ram. but only 200 mhz. Since the dell is new and came with xp and we are lowbudgeting a network now with a linksys router and NIC card in the pentium one my boss is 2 cheap to get rid of. We have other systems that have 98 for scientific purposes. anyway I didnt know about the ntfs stuff now being used for xp, I am sure that is the reason for no files being shown on the d drive with xp once 98 boots. I fdisked and formatted this drive at home without the /s and it still takes over the boot whether it is the master or the slave. when i get it to work. this home system is a cyrix 11, 300 mhz win 98. and it still when i took to work would take Im thinking fat32. Thanks to all of you for your replies and im sorry it took so long to get back. The xp loaded drive on this pentium 1 system has been working fine since it was installed. Anyway thanks again. I have a letter to western digitaltech support too. I'll see what they say.