Added 2nd drive, and getting problems in win98SE..help !

[MoNoW]

Anyone who has experience of adding a second hard drive, under win98SE, can you please help?

I have just added a second hard drive (40GB drive) to a windows 98SE system. The original hard drive was a 6GB hard drive. I just made the new hard drive the master drive and the old drive into a slave drive. I reinstalled win98se onto the new drive, leaving the old win98se as it was (not formatted or altered in anyway), so I could access the old data folders.

The problem is that I am getting weird problems with the new win98 drive. It loads OK and most things seem to be functioning, but I am getting a few programs that now hang up and won't close down. Also there is sometimes problems with creating shortcuts and basic windows operations.

So I started to wonder if some if not all the problems were being caused by possible interference from the previous versions of win98SE on the old drive. The problems that I am now having were similar ones to the ones that use to happen with the old hard drive system.

Can there be some contamination from the other win98SE ?

Any expertise advice on this problem would be appreciated.

[Aman]

Very possible, yes.

Most likely, suckmycomputer98 is trying to read your secondary drive as a main drive - an "Operating System" drive .. but your current drive is causing conflictions.

Make your 6GB as the master again, your 40gb as slave - Copy ALL files you need to a CD, format both drives, install Winbloze on your 40GB (make sure the 40gb is the master when this is done).

[sublime]

i've got a better suggestion (not to disagree with you Aman) but go out and get yourself a copy of windows xp. You'll wonder why you've waited this long. (I know I am :) )

[mahitto]

Well i dont agree with you, Aman is right, format all drives then make a fresh win98 SE instal...l

[Temple][Ka]

They are both right (Aman and sublime) you have 2 options: Aman's way or sublime's way :) what it matters is that "winbloze" as Aman says sucks ... but XP sucks the least. :))

[eCK0]

My suggestion: If you must use Windows, go get XP Pro. Backup your wanted data and format both drives. Install XP on your 6 gig and make it your master. Booting off of one and then using the other as your data drive will boost your performance.

[Lemmein]

Each to his own. I still play lots of old games, and use programs, that won't run in XP so I still use Win 98SE (but have dual booted them). If you are happy with the way your old drive is setup, and want to keep things as they are, most installation software for hard drives, (Seagate and Maxtor are two I know of), will let you "Install new drive as Boot Drive" and will transfer everything across replacing the old one. You may have to make 2 partitions on your new drive as Win98 has a 32Gb limit.