Rob,

If you had just bought a new luxury car would you leave it parked in the
garage because you were more familiar with the 15 year old compact?

WinXP is luxury personified. It is much better than Win98 and most
important much more stable (you won't see the blue screen of death
anymore). That said, if your friend still wants to use Win98 then that
friend needs to have a dual boot set up. It could be via an external hard
disk configuration and could be through a USB port but the way I would do
it is by adding the old drive internally. Get some dual boot software like
Partition Magic and create a dual boot. It is also possible to make the
dual boot with WinXP but Partition Magic would be my choice. Then when the
computer is started your friend would get a screen with a choice of booting
with Win98 or WinXP appears. This is also a good way to be weaned off older
systems. (Given time and usage it will become apparent to most that WinXP
is the way to go.)

J. Dent

At 01:26 AM 4/5/2004, you wrote:
>A friend of mine just recently purchased a new computer that has Win XP
>Home installed. They don't like it very much and was wondering if she
>could dual boot the computer with the hard drive from her old computer,
>Win 98, installed into a USB device.
>TIA
>Rob Shane
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