You should be able to have both drives functioning at the same time. Check the drive manufacturers' website(s) to determine the appropriate jumper settings for both drives and set the new one to "master" and the old one to "slave". I suspect they're both configured as master (or at least not correctly) and that's confusing your BIOS at bootup. Once you get the master/slave situation corrected, XP should install on the new drive which will allow you to copy over the data you want to keep to it.
I did just what you are doing about 2 months ago, and it is working great. I'm running XP on the new drive, and triple booting it, and Win98 and Debian Woody on the old drive with a main and backup data partition on the new and old drives.
Hope this helps...
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by: panelessPosted on 2003-03-08 at 17:55:53ID: 8096171
You should be able to have both drives functioning at the same time. Check the drive manufacturers' website(s) to determine the appropriate jumper settings for both drives and set the new one to "master" and the old one to "slave". I suspect they're both configured as master (or at least not correctly) and that's confusing your BIOS at bootup. Once you get the master/slave situation corrected, XP should install on the new drive which will allow you to copy over the data you want to keep to it.
I did just what you are doing about 2 months ago, and it is working great. I'm running XP on the new drive, and triple booting it, and Win98 and Debian Woody on the old drive with a main and backup data partition on the new and old drives.
Hope this helps...