I've built a new PC following a motherboard failure. I've copied personal
files and photos from both old hard drives and transfered then onto the
new hard drive. I'm now thinking of "Fdisking and formating" both old
drives using a Windows 98 floppy boot-up disc, but first disconnecting the
new hard drive, to be on the safe side. I there a better way?

One hard drive is 40 Gig and the other 120 Gig the OS is XP. I'm also
considering installing Linux on the smaller drive and wonder which way
should I do this without causing boot-up problems with my new hard drive.
AL

XP is easier to use for the partition and format but 98 works fine if you
are familiar. If you are loading Linux/Unix load the other OS first and use
the Linux bootloader for dual boot from each partition. Works flawlessly
most of the time (I haven't seen it not work when done that way)

Alan wrote:
One fdisk command I find useful when dealing with multiple drives is

fdisk /status

It tells you whats going on with the physical disks.

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