2 hard drives work 'best' when both are from the same manufacture.
Start by shutting down the PC, and preparing for the new drive.
Make sure you have a 2 drive cable.
Make sure that you have a big enough power supply. 250 Watts should be okay.
If needed, remove the Primary drive so that you can see the jumper chart on the drive, and the jumpers themselves.
Make sure that this drive is jumpered as Master with slave present.
Jumper the new drive as slave.
Connect both drives to theIDe cable on the first IDe channel (0/1)
When you boot up, enter BIOS setup.
As needed, set the second hard drive to auto detect for both drive and DMA settings.
Save and exit setup.
Since you plan to install XP, there is nothing more you need to do at this point.
Prior to installing XP, I recommend adding another 128MB of RAM.
Since you are planning a dual boot (W98 and XP) system, don't increase RAM to more than 384MB.
Check your hardware for XP compatibility. You can run a test from the links at www.pcpitstop.com
Or go to Microsoft's XP page and review the HCL.
Older printers, 3DFX video cards, and Aureal based sound cards can be sources of problems.
Go to the appropriate manufactures web sites, and download the XP drivers for your hardware.
When you install XP, direct setup to use the new hard drive.
If you want to be able to access files on the XP drive from W98, format the new drive as a FAT32 volume.
That should take care of most basics. Hard to predict if any problems will show up along the way.
A couple of good sites for general information:
www.fdisk.com/fdisk
They have links to drive setup guides, and a tutorial on fdisk.
www.aumha.org
A good site for general Windows issues.
They have a very good XP shutdown trouble-shooting guide.
www.onecomputerguy.com
Bill has a lot of good information on problem resolution, setup, and performance tricks.
Chas
