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Will my windows 98 hard drive work in my xp pro machine? 1

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justsomedude67

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Wondering if I take a hard drive from a windows 98 machine and put it in my xp pro machine, will I be able to see and copy the files that are on the win 98 hard drive?
 
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Yes. Unless you used a drive overlay program to fdisk and format it.
XP can see the native SE filesystems.

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Give the wrong symptoms, get the wrong solutions.
 
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