I was running Win98SE and my computer crashed. I bought a new tower and it's running WinXP Home. How do I transfer the data from the old hard drive to my new computer?

Do you mean you want to transfer your documents etc ?


Just open the case and attach the hard disk to an IDE cable making sure the hard disk is set to cable select or slave on the jumpers of the drive (should have a sticker showing on the bottom).

Once XP has booted and recognised the additional drive just cut and paste the work from the old to new drive.

May also have to go in to the bios and get teh drive recognised there if it isn't set to auto find the drive.

Will it make a difference that the old hard drive was using 98SE and my new one is XP?..I don't know much about setting BIOS..

my new tower has an open slot for another hard drive. The hard drive that's in it now is 160GB and the one from my old comp is 80Gb..Can I just install it in my new tower and it'll run..remember the old 1 was using 98.....I'm sooo confused

The main or master drive has XP on it, that will always br the OS that loads.

Just plug in the 2nd drive either as slave on the same cable as the 1st hard disk or on another cable most likely the one with the CD drives attached.

Having 98 on the 2nd hard disk is irrelivant it won't recognise this and try to boot it.

you kan hook up your old hard drive to your new tower and stuff as a slave
and just drag all your files that u want on to it which is easy

but if you want to transfer the whole hard drive and have to of the same exact copies of your windowsSE on your new harddrive you can use a program called i think norton ghost and it pretty much copies the whold harddrive with windows and everything

good luck