Pardon my newbie-ness.  I have a computer running XP.  I have an older computer running 98.   Can I take the hard drive out of the older computer and put it as a secondary hard drive in the new computer without botching things up.  I would like to be able to have the choice at boot time of which hard drive to boot off, thus being able to use some older programs I have that only run in 98.

I am thinking that if I just put the old hard drive in the new computer, the new computer will recognize it and hope fully not erase, overwrite or format and just leave everything as it is.  Then I can opt to boot from the old or the new when I turn it on.

Am I over simplifying it?  

thanks for the help

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