Paul writes:

> Hi folks,
>
> I'm facing the following situation and I thought that I'd ask for some
> help.
>
> At home I have an 'emachines' PC running Windows 98.  Per someone's
> insistence (related to new work project), I signed up for DSL access.  I
> ran into some problems during the installation and now my PC is 'messed up'
> enough that I do not have internet access.  It seems that I'll have to
> re-install the OS, and I'd like to "save off" my wife's and kid's homework.
> So I took home a spare disk drive and I've been trying to install it and
> have Windows 98 "see" the new drive, without much luck.
>
> I also took home another PC with Windows XP on it, installed DSL (so our
> internet access and email is back), and plan to make that our new "home
> PC".  My plan is to copy onto the new drive the needed files (if I can ever
> get Windows 98 to "see" the new drive), and then install that drive into
> our new machine.
>
> I'd appreciate any help.
>
> Regards
> Paul Christidis

Around 10 years ago when I needed to add a 2nd IDE disk to my Pavillion I had to buy
a new "Enhanced IDE" controller. I believe (could be wrong here) that there was (is?) a limit
of 2 IDE drives, A: and C: being those two so if you need a 2nd hard drive the controller has
to support it. This was all ~10 years ago so this may not be true anymore but I thought I would
pass it along in case it helps.

Why couldn't you take the C drive from the E-machine and make it the D drive of the XP
machine and put the scratch drive in the E-machine and update it to XP? You still may need
the enhanced controller but it would be on the home PC that way!

Cheers,

Bill
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