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Kathy - 12 Feb 2004 19:25 GMT

I have an old win95 box running on our network at work. We need to keep the
old thing for reasons not worth trying to explain. Anyway, the drive in the
thing is very small in today's terms. I think its like 860 meg or something
insane. It's full, user only has 6 M yes only 6 Megs of space left. I'm
wondering how feasible is it to add a drive from a defunct machine that the
mother board died. The drive I want to add is 3.7 Gig and has win 98 on it.

What things might I want to know before even attempting this IF it's even
possible.

Thanks!

Kathy

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Tim Slattery - 12 Feb 2004 21:04 GMT

>I have an old win95 box running on our network at work. We need to keep the
>old thing for reasons not worth trying to explain. Anyway, the drive in the
>thing is very small in today's terms. I think its like 860 meg or something
>insane. It's full, user only has 6 M yes only 6 Megs of space left. I'm
>wondering how feasible is it to add a drive from a defunct machine that the
>mother board died. The drive I want to add is 3.7 Gig and has win 98 on it.

It should work fine. With a machine that old, the BIOS might have a
problem with a disk larger than 8GB, but this one should not present a
problem.

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philo - 12 Feb 2004 21:56 GMT

> I have an old win95 box running on our network at work. We need to keep the
> old thing for reasons not worth trying to explain. Anyway, the drive in the
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> Kathy

adding another drive should not be a problem

if the machine is using win95a (july1995) you will have to

delete the drive that came from the win98 machine
and recreate two partitions ...each 2 gigs or less ...as win95a can only
support
fat16 (do not enable large drive support when you create the partitions)

if the machine has win95B or newer
all you'd have to do is format the drive from the win98 machine
assuming it's presently fat32

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