"Paul Schumacher" <pdschuns@cfl.rr.com> wrote in message
news:72%uf.388$2i3.201@tornado.tampabay.rr.com...
> Thanks for the replies.
>
> Thankfully this machine with the XP has FAT 32 as the file system. Now I
> want to add the second harddrive from another computer that already has
> Win98SE installed on it and use this as the second drive in the subject
> machine. If I do this and do something about fixing the MBR will I get
dual
> boot? Or will I have to reinstall the Win 98 SE on the second drive?
Thanks.
>
> Paul

There are two issues to be resolved here:
a) Make the machine boot into Win98. This could easily be fixed
by making an entry in c:\boot.ini. There is no need to "fix" the
MBR - it's the same for all current versions of Windows.
b) The Win98 system drive letter. I assume that Win98 ran on
drive C: before, hence it must still run on drive C:. Unfortunately
this drive letter is now used by WinXP.

You now have two options:
- Re-install Win98 on drive D:. This will disrupt your WinXP boot
environment but this is easily fixed.
- Use a boot manager (e.g. XOSL) that can hide partitions from
each other. When booting into WinXP then it would show you
both partitions. When booting into Win98 then it would hide the
WinXP partition, thus freeing drive letter C: for WinXP to use.

Post again if you require further details.