[Sheflug] New hardware confusion

[J Simpson <janet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Everyone,

I used to have a primary had drive of 20 gb and a 10gb secondary hard drive.

The main drive was dual boot with Wins 98 and Suse 10.0.  I used the
secondary hard drive to back up the linux and to share data between drives.

As I moderate a group I decided to have the work done when I was on
holiday.  So my CD writer was replaced with a DVD writer.

My primary hard drive was supposed to become my secondary harddrive and
the new 120 gb my main primary drive.

However, nothing quite went to plan.  I have the new dvd writer.  My
computer man does not do linux, so when he put in the 120gb drive wins
98 could not see it.

So he has taken out my old secondary hard drive (which is now sitting on
my dining room table).

My old primary drive is connected up.  He has told me that he put wins
xp on a 20 gb partition of the 120gb drive.  He has told me that I must
not connect the two drives together until I have transferred the data
across as xp will do strange things and I will lose every thing.

So I am a bit lost really.

Is this too simple:

Why can't I just install linux on the 120 gb hard drive and set the boot
loader to see the suse and windows 98 on the other drive?  So I would
just overwrite the xp he has put on?

And I am not too sure what I am supposed to do with my old drive as I do
want the information on it.  Can you have 3 hard drives connected on a
machine?

All thoughts gratefully received.

Regards

Janet

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