If this drive contains no mbr/OS then it really shouldn't matter.But In your
case I believe this is your boot drive, Correct??
If so you will most definetly run into some major and minor problems since
your current 40gig is associated with Win98 and the Athalon systems
registery/hardware settings while your old system is associated w Win95 and
a totally different set of hardware settings and registry.
I would recommend setting up your new HD as a primary slave and see if your
bios will recognize the size. If not
then you will have to go to your MOBO website and see if an updated bios
flash is available for downloading.
Be warned this procedure should only be done by someone who is very
familliar with computers and Dos in
particular. REad the Readme.txt included or any information that the Website
stipulates and follow their directions explicitly. Failure to do so can
result in a dead MOBO.

Good Luck
Barry Clark
----- Original Message -----
From: "Yakymakha L. Olexandr" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, July 01, 2002 12:59 AM
Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] Moving hard drive from one PC/OS to a different PC/OS


> Hello Maurice,
>
> Saturday, June 29, 2002, 9:44:58 PM, you wrote:
>
> MR> I had to ship my 850MHz AMD Athlon to vendor for warranty repairs and
pulled my 40gb HD (to protect valuable and confidential business data) and
not relevant to the repairs, before sending. I
> MR> also have an old 100MHz Pentium with WIN95 OS, which I maintain for
old files storage and for the grand kids to play small games on. Since I
need to maintain processing business information on a
> MR> current basis while awating return of my repaired machine, I need to
know, before doing so, if I can temporarily replace my old small hard drive
with the HD from my AMD (a WIN98 OS) without any
> MR> kind of negative consequences. I am a little concerned, especially
with the marked difference in BIOS. Any help or advice would be greatly
appreciated and will contribute to reducing my stress
> MR> level.
>
> It seems to me that your Pentium 100 couldn't detect the new HDD
> (40GB). May be exists additional software to maintain HDD more then
> 10GB. My Pentium 200 now working with 20GB only.
>
>
> --
> Best regards,
>  Yakymakha

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