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MikeQ:
--- Quote from: MikeQ on March 28, 2006, 08:18:01 pm ---
--- Quote from: ChadTower on March 28, 2006, 02:27:29 pm ---
I have some smaller IDE drives sitting around... something around 13G.
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13Gb would be big enough for my needs. Just he OS and mame. I have SATA drives in my development systems. I'll have to see if it can take IDE.
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Yup, I have an IDE header.
JoyMonkey:
I've got a couple of 10G ide drives hanging around too. If you had an external IDE->USB2.0 enclosure it might make life easier.
Tiger-Heli:
I have a similar set-up on my current PC that may work well for you if you try this. Do the following:
Unplug the IDE (and power?) cable from the WINXP HD.
Set the jumpers on the new drive to slave (or install to the secondary controller).
Connect only the new drive's IDE and power cables and install Win98 on the second drive.
Connect the WinXP HD's IDE and power cables back up.
Re-boot. . .
NOTE: A key point is to have only one drive connected when you install either WinXP or Win98 on either drive. This avoids having (particularly WinXP) detect another drive and install the dual-boot files on the main drive.
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The beauty of this system is as follows:
The system normally boots straight into WinXP - No OS selection screen, so I don't have to worry about choosing a drive to boot to.
When I want to boot to Win98, I just go into the BIOS and select HDD-1 instead of HDD-0 as the boot device.
I am running either Win98 solo or WinXP solo - the system doesn't think it is a dual-boot setup.
If I need one of the .dll's I created under Win98, I can access it, as the D:\ drive is connected and WinXP can read FAT32.
OTOH - if I need one of the WinXP files under Win98, I either have to format the WinXP drive as FAT32 or copy it to a thumb drive as Win98 will not even see that an NTFS partition exists.
HTH!!!
MikeQ:
--- Quote from: JoyMonkey on March 29, 2006, 07:30:07 am ---I've got a couple of 10G ide drives hanging around too. If you had an external IDE->USB2.0 enclosure it might make life easier.
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I have a removable drive bay for IDE's but I've always had problems with them not seating perfectly everytime. A USB to IDE would probably be a better way to go. I could also just mount all the drives permanently in the case and make the machine dual boot too. For some reason, I like the external approach though.
ChadTower:
Well, PM me if you'd like a couple drives.
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