Hard Drive issue

[Dru Lee Parsec]

OK hardware gurus. I need some help here. Here's my situation:

C drive = 40Gig with Windows 98 on it
D drive = 40Gig with Windows 2k on it. These are 2 different physical drives

D drive has more and more bad sectors and is causing spontainious reboots as the computer attempts to write to these bad sectors. chkdisk and Norton Utilities can't fix it. It's time for a new drive.

I need to drop in a new drive (no problem) and put Windows 2K onto the 2nd drive. I do NOT want to overwrite the C drive. Win 98 is for games (Direct X support) and win 2K is for work.

If I drop in a brand new unformatted drive to replace the D drive how do I make sure that when I install Win 2K it does not step on my C drive?

The answer to the question of "How did you do it last time?" is that the store I bought it from did it for me.

The answer to the suggestion of "Scrape them both and put Win XP on a 100 Gig hard drive" is that I don't want to spend the money for a new OS when I already own 98 and 2K. I can spend the money on a new 80 gig hard drive ($69) but I don't want to have to drop another $100 or so on XP.

Thanks

Dru

[stuka]

Win 2K lets you choose what drive you want to install on. It's not limited to only the C drive like Win98. It's really a matter of dropping it in, and installing it. It'll even let you format the blank drive if needed.

[Dru Lee Parsec]

Oh cool! I was worried that like windows 95 and 98 it assumes that your main drive is always C.

Thanks for the tip.

[stuka]

No problem - I've installed Win2K and XP more times than I care to count.