Installing Windows XP on the hard disk which has data on it

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Hello!

I had recently my data recovered and I was stored on a new hard disk (80 Gb MAXTOR).
Is it possible to install Windows XP on the same hard disk or should I use the new disk as a slave disk and record the data on DVD-s. I would already have done that, but the problem is that I can't see the new disk as a slave (the BIOS sees it, but it is not visible in My Computer (I have Windows 98 on my primary master).
So, I would preferably install the operating system on my new hard disk, but I'm afraid that I will lose the data on it.
If anybody can help, please answer!

Thanks in advance,

Kristjan
 
Your old drive is probably NTFS, so you won't be able to see it in Win98. BartPE is a bootable CD that you could look into. With the correct extensions, it SHOULD be able to boot from the disk and allow you to copy the files you want.

But, to answer your question, yes, it's possible. There's the recovery option, I've seen reloads when it loads XP over the old one, and I've seen it where someone had a few different OS's on the same HD. It should work fine from another folder...
 
The_Other_One said:
But, to answer your question, yes, it's possible. There's the recovery option, I've seen reloads when it loads XP over the old one, and I've seen it where someone had a few different OS's on the same HD. It should work fine from another folder...
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Thanks for your answer!

Can I use the recovery option when I have only data files on my new hard disk (not a complete OS)?
 
Ah, sorry if I missed that in the first part...it's way too late for me to be answering questions :P No, but you could just install another copy of XP
 
The_Other_One said:
Ah, sorry if I missed that in the first part...it's way too late for me to be answering questions :P No, but you could just install another copy of XP
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OK, so I can install Windows XP on the existing partition without formatting it?
 
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