Combining old drive with new drive?

[cosmouse]

What would be the best way to combine my old Win98 drive with my new WinXP drive? They're both FAT32, since I wasn't the one who installed either and I wasn't there during installation. Right now, the Win98 drive is just 19GB of space I'm never going to use, and I'd like to merge it.

[Troy1]

You mean like install it in your PC so you have 2 HDs?
Probably not a good idea I'd say because old hard drives tend to fail predictably with use. You can get a terabyte for like 500 dollars, so why bother?

[[ih]Demetris]

Well it depends on if your just trying to pull data off of the secondary windows 98 drive or if you want to dual boot. If you wanted to dual boot then you would have to format one of the hdds in order to do it correctly. (More than likely your XP Partition). But just trying to pull data i believe that you should be able to slave the win 98 drive up with the Windows XP drive and XP should catch the new drive. Havent tried this one in quite some time now though..

[krakjoe]

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[[ih]Demetris]

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[Decker]

:lol:
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Or just stick it in as a secondary, if you want to boot from it to your old OS too then get a copy of something like PQBootmagic.