I had support enter my computer, and try different settings... end result is to upgrade to 9.1 , for $249.oo. XP is more compatible with versions 8.1 and up. I am going to try my win98 HDrive as slave with XP HDrive. I hope XP does not stop win 98 from getting through. If it does not work, try win98 as master HDrive and XP as slave. Will not have an answer untill I try it tonite

Hey Joan- R U trying to use the old 98 drive in your XP computer for additional storage or for access to files that are already stored on the drive? Utilities like fdisk can ruin the day if you're trying to preserve data. There are several good hard disk partitioning programs with a GUI available. This will allow you to see what you're trying to achieve. Partition Magic comes to mind... that's what I use. :) I did what you're trying to do a long time ago. I can't remember the exact specifics anymore... If you want the option to boot to either 98 or XP, seems like they both have to be set up as master drives- drive jumpers set to master. One IDE cable will plug into the motherboard primary controller slot and one will plug into the secondary slot. The master drives (hard drives) need to be located at the end of the IDE ribbon cable. Put the 98 disk on the primary controller. You will have to install a boot manager to switch between the two OS's at startup. I used Boot Magic. If you install the 98 disk as a slave, I believe the data can still be read by XP, but I can't remember for sure (XP can read the FAT32 format... Win98 can't read the NTFS format??). If you choose this route, you won't be able to dual boot (again, I don't think). There is also some FAT32 partition limitation that might be messing you up. I think around 8Gb. If you ran FDISK on a 40Gb disk, you might only have a single partition now. Well... as I type this, I'm thinking about how useless this is. Hmm... I wish I could be there to help you sort it out. I'm much better with visual cues!

I installed XP Home FAT, Windows Update to sp1. (turned off Windows Updates, I will not let sp2 install) MetaStock 6.52, and Downloader 702, are working now.