At 09:46 PM 12/6/2001 -0700, you wrote: >Peter, > > > > When I got this computer in October I took the hard drive from my >old > > >computer and installed it here as a slave. It is drive E: So I have >Win98 > > >on drive E: (I never try to run it as I am using WinXP) There is a Zone > > >Alarm on drive E: also. > > Hi Vern, I've done the same thing as you have as well. Are you running xp > > and 98 as a dual boot setup? If it is not set up to dual boot then you >will > > have conflicts arising. > > No dual boot. Would it help if I delete the Win98 from the E: drive? >I've never attempted to run Win98 since getting WinXP. I was afraid it might >cause a registry conflict. I'm surprised WinXP even reads the E: drive as I >thougth WinXP used a different file system. > > >Do you have the latest Zone Alarm installed on the > > xp side? I recommend you do uninstall Zone Alarm and reinstall it and >then > > go through all the application confirmations again. > > I downloaded it in early October so I assume that is the latest one. > > > Peter Kaulback, having a balmy 18 degrees Celsius (70 degrees Fahrenheit) > > evening in southern Ontario Canada. > > It was only 60 F. here in sunny Arizona today, which is better than >the 55 F. we had Wednesday. Normal is 68 F. Are you near Detroit? >Vern
Hi Vern, I'm close to Detroit (5 hours). If you never intend to run win98 and have no use for any of the data there then you can delete it and reformat the drive. XP will read FAT 16, 32 and NTFS and it will run on all of them too, though it performs best on NTFS albeit slower than FAT 32 but more secure You should be able to format the drive through XP. Go into explorer or My Computer and right click on the drive and choose format (quick format won't work), remember to choose the file system your XP already uses, and proceed to format the drive. One good thing about a second drive is if the drive is relatively new then you can move the paging file onto it and speed up the main drive. Peter Kaulback ============= PCWorks Mailing List ================= Don't see your post? Check our posting guidelines & make sure you've followed proper posting procedures, http://pcworkers.com/rules.htm Contact list owner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unsubscribing and other changes: http://pcworkers.com =====================================================
