Drive C-O (original) started flaking out and would not Ghost copy to new drive. So, had very old drive C sitting around (was replaced in 2001) call it C-V and used it to create new drive C (C-N).
Installed both C-N as drive C and C-O as drive D… proceeded to grab all that I could or thought might work when copied to drive C from D. With both drives live it was very slow… figured it was maybe getting confused about multiple locations for many duplicate programs and perhaps some identical registry entries! Unhooked Drive D, ran registry fix programs (Sys Mech., etc.) many times and finally C-N was stable and fast enough (WIN98).
I didn’t grab tax info from last 4 years so I have to go back and look at C-O again… and grab some installed versions of Turbo tax. How can I remove the boot record from C-O so that it will not confuse Win98? Is there a “safe” way to grab folders of things like TurboTax (versions from 2002, 2003, 2004, and 2005) and keep new drive C registry happy?
TIA,
DOug
