Installing Windows 98 on a Second HD

I think that the easiest method consist in change your master-slave HDs.
Put your new HD like master, and the other one (actually with W98) like slave. Now your boot HD will be the new drive.

It`s not necessary to intall from Ms-dos, you can do this from your cd-rom.

Bye... :)

Will my CDROM drive still work on the new drive?(The drivers wont be installed)

Will it boot to DOS, or will I need a boot disk?

Neil

If you want boot from your cd-rom drive, you need change from your BIOS the boot drive secuence parameter:

     1.- CD-ROM (Actually in HD, i suppose)
     2.- HD
     3.- Floppy disk

When you have saved this changes, re-boot your PC with the W98 cd inserted, and it`s must start the W98 installation.

You need a 3th party bootmanager, to do the job, remember lots of applications use default (even when you don't want them to) c:\program files\.... and that's a pain in the.. When using a boot manager you may boot from a second HD which then is your C: drive :)) you'll find bootmanagers all over the internet

Homer...

Either of the methods below should work:


Method 1 - Using XCOPY
Open a DOS Window from within Windows. This will allow you to copy the necessary Hidden files. You cannot use the XCOPY by just booting to DOS. You have to have Win95 running for all the switches to be available.

Assuming you are copying everything from the C: drive to a new D: drive: type XCOPY C:\ D:\ /S /E /H /C /K /R

The /S switch includes subdirectories.
The /E switch includes empty subdirectories.
The /H switch includes hidden files.
The /C switch continues copying on an error.
The /K switch keeps the file's current attributes.
The /R switch writes over any read-only files



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Method 2 - Using the Explorer
1.  Open the Explorer

2.  Make sure you can view hidden files - View / Options / Show all files

3.  Move to the root of your C: Drive

4.  Highlight the first directory in the right hand panel

5.  Press Shift-End to select all files and subdirectories

6.  Unselect the file WIN386.SWP While over one of the highlighted files or directories, right click on the mouse and select Copy.

7.  Move to the root of your new hard drive

8.  Right click the mouse and select Paste

When you are done with either method, remove your original hard drive, set your new hard drive to be a Master, and re-start the computer.

Neither of these methods will effect your current master.

revolws changed the proposed answer to a comment

Having multiple OSs on same PC can spell trouble.
Perhaps you can elaborate on what you wish to accomplish,
for a more specific answer taylored to your situation.
centerv

First of all we need to understand your final goal. If you want to install W98 on your 2nd HD instead of the first, and you are not concerned with what happens to your original W98 install then you can try the following.

1) Make sure you have a bootable floppy that can read your CD-ROM - the windows startup diskette will normally be sufficient for this.
remember to test it !

1a) A second option is to copy the entire Win98 dir to one of your hard disks. Then you will not be dependent on the CD to install W98 at all.

2) boot your computer. when the starting windows message shows up hit F8 and choose command prompt ( normally 5 or 6 ).

3) rename your win.com , win.exe , and winver.exe to use the *.bak extension.

4) do not reboot !- run the setup program from the win98 directory on your CD.

That should allow you to install your windows anywhere you please.
If not, there are other solutions, depending again, on your final goal.
I hope this helps !

Thanks, got past that bit now, but please see my new posted question!!