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Posted: 1/26/2002 1:42:15 PM EDT
My computer's primary HD is dying.  The OS is currently on the dying drive.

I have a secondary HD with two partitions.  P1 is 6Gb, and I have cleaned all the visible files off it.  P2 is 54Gb, and contains a LOT of data that I need, and which I don't have time to back up onto CDs.

Can I install Win98SE onto the cleaned partition without destroying the data on the second partition?
Link Posted: 1/26/2002 1:51:46 PM EDT
[#1]
Yep,

Just don't format P2 before you install 98.

Remove (or disable in BIOS) the old drive, set P1 as the "active" partition and install 98 on P1.

Edited because I read your post wrong.
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Link Posted: 1/26/2002 1:54:19 PM EDT
[#2]
Quoted:
Just don't format before you install 98.
And make sue to make the second partition "active".
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Thanks -- second partition or first partition, though??  I want the OS on P1, the cleaned one.
Link Posted: 1/26/2002 2:00:08 PM EDT
[#3]
My boss is an ex-nuke (subs) and we work for a major ISP....he said:

Kleetus: oh absolutely you can install 98 to the cleaned parition...

as long as they as different partitions..you should be fine

satcong: Anything else I need to tell him?

nope...run fdisk on the hard drive and make sure the cleaned partition is made active
kleetus88: has an 'a' flag...


Link Posted: 1/26/2002 2:11:48 PM EDT
[#4]
Wunderbar.  Thanks, gents!  I'm off to reinstall. . . .  Aiyeee!
Link Posted: 1/26/2002 10:24:30 PM EDT
[#5]
Thought you meant double insulated replacement windows for you house.  Can't help with the computer, sorry
Link Posted: 1/27/2002 12:16:43 AM EDT
[#6]
Quoted:
Thought you meant double insulated replacement windows for you house.  Can't help with the computer, sorry
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No worries, that's later this Spring.  I'll call you then. [:D]
Link Posted: 1/27/2002 12:17:56 AM EDT
[#7]
How did it go?
Link Posted: 1/27/2002 7:49:35 PM EDT
[#8]
Quoted:
How did it go?
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Up and running!  Now I just have to reinstall all of the other software I had.  Sigh. [:\]

Thanks!
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