Installing a New Hard Drive on a Dual Boot System

[dolphans1]

I have a hard question to ask about changing out a hard-drive.

I already have a dual boot system with windows 98 and windows xp as both of my operating systems.

I installed it myself and it seemed pretty easy.

Here's the tough question, my original operating system was my windows 98 on my C:\ drive (10G), I later installed a 40G harddrive as my secondary and added windows XP as my operating system. Thus giving me a dual boot-system.

It works just fine.

When I boot up, it automaticlly boots up to windows XP within the 30 second count-down window. In other words, if I don't scroll down to windows 98, it will boot up into windows XP automatically.

MY hard question is this, can I change my 10G hard-drive (which is my C:\ drive with windows98 installed on it) to a higher storgage space hard-drive (120G) without messing things up.

If so, what is the easiest way to go about swapping out my hard-drive on a multiple boot system. Can I just remove my old hard-drive and replace it with the newer one?

If so, will I still keep the multiple boot on it or will I loose it?

d-1

[Force Flow]

You could copy over your boot.ini file located in the c:\ directory.

[reboot]

If you clone your current 98 drive, to the new drive, then remove the old, install the new in place of it, then it will all work as you have it now.
Notice I said "Clone", which you can do with Ghost, and a few other programs, including the stuff that comes on disk with a retail drive.
If you don't have, or don't want to buy anything, you can clone it using only DOS commands.
Instructions here: http://www.pcmech.com/show/optimize/118/