I want to install Windows 98 on a new hard drive (on my computer) before I connect it to another computer (a site I need to go to). Will the motherboard drivers (etc...) automatically be adjusted accordingly so it works on that other machine? My PC's hardware will be different from the one at the site. I just want to know if the hard drive will bootup and work properly when installed on that other computer. I won't install any other drivers until I get to the site...

Thanks.

Im my experiance, it works, but the "found new hardware" wizzard will go insane.
graphics will fall back to VESA (16 colours, very low resolution)
and hard drive controllers will fall back to generic drivers.

make sure you have a hard copy of all drivers yhr new computer needs, just insace windows98 does not have a driver for your network card / modem.

download the drivers you need before switching.

backup all moortant data.

and then manually remove all un-needed drivers, and install al the new ones.

In my experiance, it can work, but its risky, and stability may become an issue..

its a risk, better to just re-install.

Thanks...I was just trying to do this the "lazy" man's way. Didn't want to spend too much time at the site to reinstall Windows if I could install it at home and just bring in the hard drive (new hard drive)

I have all the drivers for it (Dell Optiplex GX1 - yeah it's old), but will do it from scratch at the site since, as expected, it might be a headache if done on my machine.

Duno if this would help .. and u'd probably might have thought about this ..

You can install Win98 on your PC and install the drivers for the hardware of the site PC on your PC, it wouldent make a difference when you are doing it, but once you go there and connect, the hardware install wizard would show up and obviously like a retard ask you for drivers .. well that time i guess u could just keep hitting next or if win98 is like XP .. then it would search and install the drivers itself ..

Regards
Dhanesh.

It works perfectly, if you have copied the Win98 CD to the hdd, because on first boot, win98 won't find your cd wich it needs for installing new drivers.
I've done it a few times and it works (except I forget to copy the cd everytime, over and over )