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Can you install windows 98 on a hard drive and transfer this hard drive to another computer and run Windows 98 as well as if it had been installed directly on this computer?
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∙ 12y ago
If both computers are the exact same model you can do it without any problem.
If the computer that you transfer the hard drive to is different it may still work, but when you boot the computer Windows98 wil look for drivers for the different chipset
In the process of looking for the correct driver Win98 may ask you to insert the Win98 install disk. The problem is the CD drive will not be recognized yet because usually the ide and pci chipset drivers have to be loaded first ,but they have to be loaded from the CD disk. Ah a real
dilema!
The solution: make a windows startup disk and replace the msdos.sys
file and io.sys file on floppy with the msdos.sys and io.sys files from the win 98 hard drive. Transfer drive , and boot to the floppy on new machine. It will load the dos cdrom drivers and also boot to Win98. The cdrom will show up in Win98 and you can install drivers for new hardware from the CD.
After all the drivers are fund it should work o.k.
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