Can I swap ahard drive with windows xp into an older computer with windows 98?

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Re: Can I swap ahard drive with windows xp into an older computer with windows 98?

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Apr 24th, 2008

yes you can

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Re: Can I swap ahard drive with windows xp into an older computer with windows 98?

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Apr 24th, 2008

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Originally Posted by Selwyn

yes you can

Details? I have the hard drive with xp set up as a external so I can add drivers before the swap but so far it won't let me start in safe mode to switch the drivers to the older 98 style set-up. Any help would be appreciated.