im upgrading from win me to win xp.
im going to put it on a seperate hd. by its self.and use it as master + use existing hd as slave.is this recomended + easy to do.how do you set it up to do this.not an expert on these things.

thanks in advance for any help.

mick

 

Set the old drive to slave & the new one to master using the DIP switches on the drives, then do a complete fresh install of XP on the new drive.

 

Are you going to set the 2nd drive as a dual boot with WinME? - you can then access all your previous WinME stuff if you need to with that original operating system running. It's handy when you change over just to make sure there is nothing crucial you've left behind

- Remember to keep FAT32 file system...

Cheers

Mick

 

noooooooooooooooooooooo...........Win ME is devil spawned. get rid off asap. Use the NTFS system for your XP install and just take what you need of the ME hard drive.

cheers

sinky

 

windows me, windows many errors (and thats a quote from a guy in pc world) lmao

 

one drive as master, one as slave will do it (remember that master goes at the far end of the cable) but will run at the speed of the slowest drive. If your board has any spare IDE headers (eg. from an onboard raid controller) you might want to use that instead, in theory this will double the speed of copying all your data as the system will be able to talk to both simultaneously as they're not sharing.

 

Leave the old ME hd disconnected while you build your xp system. Reconnect when XP is up and running. Just disconnecting the power will do.

This will def.
- make sure your drive letters are logical
- you don't wipe your ME drive
- you don't get dual boot options
and some other things I cant quite think of at the mo..

 

That may be true... but I don't think the validity of the statement is confirmed by the fact that it was a PC world guy who made it

Anyway... My point is that I have just gone through the same process myself and it was useful to be able to access some things that are not so easy to transfer when building a new system and some things don't run properly on WinXP that do run fine(ish ) on WinME

I quite like having a clean build and also having the old system available... I have now completely dropped WinME on my main machine and am now running WinXP on 2 partitions. Nice clean install on C: and access to all my old emails, tryout magazine software etc. still on the D: drive. - works for me It's also good for disk defrag - no immoveable files... defrag D: drive from operating system on C: and vice versa...

Cheers

Mick