access to old HD??

the old drive is Win95 osr1

you need to jump the HD as primary slave, then you will need to use the cable that goes from your CD-ROM to your HD. then you need to use another cable, Jump the CD-ROM to MASTER and put it as Secondary master. also, you need to format the HD select the parameters to NORMAL. I will say you need to use Fat16 with it. Do not use FAT32. your HD might not be compatible, the problem with it is that the OLD hd is so Slow that it will give you problems with your current HD and it will make you slower the machine when you use it.

if you need more info let me know.please post what you have done so far after trying my solution.

Do you wish to boot off of the old drive, or do you simply want to access files on it?  If you only want to access files, the easiest way to get stuff off of it is to use a network connection, a removable drive (such as Zip or even a floppy), or Direct Cable Connection.

regards,
Jeremy

If you think that Win98 doesn't like your old Hd, then try to boot your computer with a boot disk that contains Win95 or Dos, then try to acess it.
Be sure that your Hd is jumped correctly, as slave, or use the secondary ide port, if available on your motherboard, and the old hd jumped as master.
 Use the autodetect feature on setup.

You should be able to add the old HD to your system as mentioned above (jumpered properly). Don't format the darn thing unless you have the data off it, though.
Also as mentioned above, the old HD may slow your system down, so just copy the stuff off it, and get rid of that old thing (or put it back in the old system for the kids to use, or donate the old system to a church), after all, it's only a 420M HD.
If both computers have NICs, just copy across a crossover cable, a zip drive would work, or, if the files are small, use a big stack of floppies. depends on what equipment you have laying about.
Just trying to interpret things a bit...

> Is this allowed??

Your motherboard probably has two IDE ports.
Each IDE port can support two devices - a "master" and a "slave".
Since the old hard-drive will probably be much slower
than your new hard-drive, do *NOT* put both drives
onto the same IDE-port -- this may cause the faster drive
to perform poorly.
Instead, connect it to the secondary IDE-port,
as the "master" device, and re-jumper the CD-ROM
(which is probably connected to the this IDE-port)
as "slave".

> Something tells me win98 won't like it!

WIN98 can read FAT-formatted floppy-disks,
so it should be able to read FAT-formatted hard-drives.

> Can I just stick it in and expect to access the files?

Not unless you use the USB ports.  :-)  :-)
You will need to correctly set the jumpers,
and connect the ribbon-cables correctly.

Wow, thanks.  If I floppy boot to win95 on 420 how will I copy to new drive, it is win98?  What similar conflicts will I have with a DCC? hmm...probably less. I only have one monitor.... I
I guess the easiest for me is installing it and try it out. Thanks for all your help..if you think of something crucial I should know, thanks again. Raisin

You should have no problem copying files from one drive to another, regardless of what OS you have installed on it.  That is, as long as you don't start copying system files from one disk to another.  By the way, what exactly do you want to copy from one drive to the other?  You have to be careful about copying installed programs (word processors, web browsers, etc) because of 2 things:
1.  many programs must be installed using a special setup program, which changes system files and settings on the host drive to accomodate the new software.
2.  most software is version specific.  although the old drive had win95, it may have some old programs that are not compatible with win 98.
because of these factors, I would suggest that you not copy programs from one drive to another, unless a computer guru specifically says that it's ok to do that with a specific program.  The only type of files you should move are data files (documents, spreadsheets, etc.) or very small shareware type programs that are simply copied without being installed.

Good Luck,
Jeremy