I have a Win 98 SE and we bought another windows 98 SE, it has more space but I was wondering is it possible to put space from that computer on my computer? How do I go about doing that? I asked this before but I didn't get a really good answer.
2006-09-25 12:05:08 · 5 answers · asked by smartdudeforlife 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Desktops
It's a hardware issue and has nothing to do with the operating system.
Look in the system upgrade manuals and see if the specs for upgrade memory match up.
Unless you're also confusing memory with hard drive space. In that case you should *definitely* have someone with some actual expertise take a look at it for you.
2006-09-25 12:09:26 · answer #1 · answered by John's Secret Identity™ 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It might have to do with how you asked the question. Memory is commonly used incorrectly.
You have hard-drive space "where your programs live"
You also have RAM random access memory, this is memory for using the programs on in your hard-drive.
If it's ram you are referring to, yes just add the memory to your PC.
But I think you referring to the hard-drive.
In short you cannot add the space from the other hard-drive to your other hard-drive. this is physically not possible.
however you can add the hard-drive from one PC to another PC by making it a slave drive.
basically a drive is primary or slave.
your main drive in your PC in your primary.[c:]
adding another hard-drive to that PC:
take the hd out of the PC and change the settings on the back to Slave then connect to the same wire that connects your main drive.
your main drive with be connected to the end of the cable and the slave with connect to any other piece of that cable but not the end.
plug in the power cable and you PC should find this drive and assign it the next letter available which should be [D:]
shoot me an email if you are still having issues.
good luck
Ron
2006-09-25 19:17:40 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It depends on how much you have in already in your computer. The fact that they are both running a Windows 98 OS has nothing to do with how much memory you can add to the computer. Also when you say memory, do you mean RAM or storage?
2006-09-25 19:12:42 · answer #3 · answered by pknutson_sws 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, you can't share memory. However, it sounds like you're talking about disk space. If you set up a network, and gave the smaller one rights to the larger one's hard drive, they you could write to the larger drive.
But frankly, why in the world would you buy a Win 98 machine? If you want more memory, buy more RAM, if you want more disk space, buy another hard drive and install.
2006-09-25 19:14:40 · answer #4 · answered by William M 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you mean ram, find the right kind and add more.
crucial.com
If you mean hard drive space get a larger one and have someone, who knows what they are doing, clone the drive and use the old one for back-up. Better yet get a new computer with XP.
2006-09-25 19:15:48 · answer #5 · answered by doggiebike 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋