[COMP] Re: Drive Letter Designations

In a message dated 5/17/00 10:37:29 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
CRAZYDOVE@xxxxxxx writes:

<< This seems to be getting very 
 complicated and that's why I'm trying to reason out the whole thing in my 
 head before I do anything physically. >>

To be honest, it's easier to do it in real life than in your brain.  Open the 
case, pull the old drive, (you can just pull the cable, you don't really have 
to take the drive out...for that matter, i never really put new one all the 
way in till I'm through....I just swap cables and jumpers and leave it laying 
out of the case to do this junk)
add the new drive as master, format, fdisk, all that junk, (make it 2 
partitions, one for the os and one for the stuff you're gonna copy over). 
Pull it, make it a slave, add the old one back in, (it's still master).  Copy 
the files you want over to the second partition on new empty drive. (that way 
when you're through, you already have a backup of all those files you copied 
on a seperate partition) Then pull them both, add the new drive w/the files 
that you just copied back as the master.  Load 98 on it. (on the first 
partition) Now, pull that drive ( or the cable).  Anyway, after you have 98 
on the new drive on the primary partition, and the copied files on the second 
partion, then you put the old drive back in, all by itself, as the master, 
format the thing, then pull it, swap jumpers again, add the new drive w/the 
fresh install of 98 as the master, the old drive, (now empty) as the slave, 
and you're done.  Windows will assign everything a drive letter so that's the 
least of your worries.  When I say pull the drive, I'm just referring to 
pulling the cable most of the time, not the actual drive itself.  That will 
help you keep up w/where you are and what you're doing if you can swap the 
cables/jumpers rather than imagining in your head what you're going to do.  
It's really not that bad when you're actually doing it.

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