Vallan

"Change the boot order to what? Maybe I should explain more. This system was originally running off the windows 98SE hard drive, so there are no driver conflicts. Neither drive has other partitions. I removed that hard drive and put in a newer, larger SATA drive. I bought windows XP with SP2 and put it on the new hard drive and started over clean - but with all the same old hardware and drivers. Now I would like to put in the old IDE hard drive with windows 98SE on it and have the option to boot to windows 98SE, so that I can play old games on that drive, and use my older programs on it."

Apparently I had intended to get a SATA, but it is really an IDE - I don't know if that changes anything. (Sorry it has taken me a while, but we had an emergency wedding followed by a death in the family.) I am going to have to reformat the drive before I do this as the XP hard drive has a driver from a canon scanner stuck in in making it squirrely, and no one seems to know how to get it out. (system restore doesn't work). Anyway, while I do that, the question is: does it change the instructions you're giving me if both HDDs are IDE?