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I already have a 6Gb and a 20 Gb drive and I am thinking of adding a 40Gb drive. What is the maximum size I can add with Win98 without having to partition the drive?

Thanks for your advice. I will buy an IDE 5 port USB2 card.

My board is a EPoX 4BDAE which I purchased in Nov 02.

My board is a EPoX 4BDAE which I purchased in Nov 02.

Thanks for your advice. What type of IDE card is required? How do I know if my power supply is sufficient?

I alreay have 2 hards drivers, a CD reader and a CD burner on my PC. I was wondering what are the options for adding a third hard drive as the existing cables only allow for 4 devices?

How can I tell what type of USB ports my PC has? ie. 1, 1.1 or 2?

wolluf Thanks again for your advice. You are right about being a hardware problem. I finally traced the problems to the disk ribbon cable, after 3 wasted days, but I learnt alot. Now fixed and working. I have decided not to use boot manager at this stage and just change boot sequence in bios...

wolluf Thanks again for your advice. You are right about being a hardware problem. I finally traced the problems to the disk ribbon cable, after 3 wasted days, but I learnt alot. Now fixed and working. I have decided not to use boot manager at this stage and just change boot sequence in bios...

wolluf, Futher to my last reply, I have used a disk editor to view the boot sector on my 98 drive. The partition table only has one entry. Should it have 2 entries if it is to know about my second physical drive or is this information stored somewhere else? e.g. the bios knows I have 2...

wolluf - some answers to your questions Q. You said it took 3 attempts to install win2k - why? (were there problems? - if so, what). A. Yes there was a problem - 2k installed files and then found a problem and asked me to reboot. I got the same message about 3 times but after that it worked...

wolluf, I carried out procedure as you suggested. I disconnected 1st drive, installed 2k ok on 2nd drive after 3 attempts. I reconnected 1st drive - it booted ok in 98 and I could access 2nd drive. I did the boot-us install using floppy drive. Again 98 booted ok. Then my problems began. Problem...

wolluf, thanks for reply. Together with info on boot-us.com, you have answered my question. The boot-us boot manager seems to be the way to go.

Thanks for the url. I found it helpful. The web page is about dual booting Win98 and Win2K from the same hard drive. What I would like to know is whether it is possible to boot Win2K from the second (slave) drive. Has anyone done this successfully or otherwise?

I have Win98 installed on my 6Gb C: drive. (Fat32 files). I also have a second drive D: 20 Gb which I use as a backup to C: drive. I would like to install Win 2000 on D: drive and then have a dual boot system i.e. boot from Win98 on C: drive or Win2000 on D: Drive. Is this possible. If so, how...