Need to load WIN98 onto new drive without losing WIN98 on my current.

[Gary0133]

When I install WIN98 on my system, it will only install onto C: drive. I want to now, make my D: (SCSI) drive the boot drive. Trouble is, all my stuff is on the C: drive right now. Can you help? I tried another support group called

 

[pmkincaid]

Is the C: drive IDE or SCSI? The BIOS of some systems allow you to set the boot order of your drives (ie floppy, CDROM, SCSI, hard drive) - the last &quot;hard drive&quot; is the imbedded IDE controller on the motherboard.<br>
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Another thing to try is remove the IDE drive temporarily, boot and install Win 98 to the SCSI drive, then reinstall the IDE drive after the completed install and change the MSDOS.SYS file. MSDOS.SYS is simply a text file now with Win9x and there is an entry for the Windows directory, you should be able to change that to D:\windows -- that may work. I have never done it, but in theory it should work.<br>

 

[guldan]

all u need to do is go to the bios setup menu and tell the computer to boot from the cd<br>
than u can tell windows to install to what ever disk u want

 

[Alt255]

Pmkincaid is right. Unfortunately, no amount of trickery with MSDOS.SYS will fool Windows setup. It will see a pre-existing installation on C: and probably make a mess of its registry. You can try to disconnect your first drive, make your other drive bootable by running SYS from a floppy and then installing Windows... but you'll probably have to reinstall all of your software. The easy solution would be to copy C: to D:, swap the drive assignments, reinstall Windows on the SCSI and then use your old C: for whatever you like.<br>
D: has been my Windows drive (without dual-boot) for more than ten years. I like it that way but, in retrospect, life would have been a lot easier if I had let Windows install on the drive of <i>its choice.</i><br>
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[StanM]

The easiest way to do this is to install System Commander 2000 on your C drive. It will allow you to install just about any OS anywhere.