Yes - you are still booting the original OS from the small drive that is the original on that system and can see the partitions that were (and still are) on the big drive.
The files on the big drive were, (and presumably still are) protected from other users accessing them you should, as administrator, be able to give yourself access to them - but first check that you have set windows explorer to show you all files BUT the OS on the big drive is not the same as the OS on the little drive - as you found out when it wanted to be re-activated. You can use the XP facilities to clear down the drive by deleting partitions from it, and creating new ones and then formatting the partitions or you can just use them as they are (right click my computer - select manage - Storage - Disk management) If you are going to repartition the drive I'd suggest using NTFS and setting up 2, or 3 partitions assigned use - second copy of your personally input data, and emails - 10GB bulk data - MP3's video etc - 50gb backup imaging of the OS drive(partition C) Get something like the Paragon drive management software to do that - older versions come free with magazines Also - being picky - and you should be careful about such things when talking about partitions and drives Drives have connection paths as in 0,0,0,0 and 0,0,0,1 on those drives you can have a MBR, Primary and Extended partitions (You will need a primary partition to hold the OS loader (boot startup) that is activated by the MBR) Extended partitions can hold Secondary partitions you will need to have Primary, or Secondary partitions formatted in order to put data files on them So we now have a mystery - what happened to the partition letters D and E and what is the size, type and formatting of partitions F and G also - are either of those partitions marked as being 'ACTIVE' JimB ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Poer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2007 6:44 PM Subject: Re: How to install slave drive > Jim- > Ok, I set both to Cable Select and put the slave on the interior pass > through connector and the master at the end of the cable. I now have a new > drive on my PC with everything(looks like) that was on the larger drive > showly. I cannot, however, get into any of the files under Documents and > Settings for the profiles that were on the larger drive that I made a slave. > "Access is denied". No big problem because I think all I want to do is use > this drive for storage, but I do not know how to safely clean it off and I > don't want to just randomly start taking off files. I suppose the drive > still has its Windows OS on it, which is the same OS as the master drive. It > also created a new drive for what was the secondary drive on the larger > drive that I put in. I don't even know if I need that drive. It looks like > it has the recovery information that was on the larger drive. Everything > else looks OK. It boots to the smaller drive just like before and shows the > new drives(F and G) that are the larger drive. So, I guess I need to know > what I can do to these new drives to make them useful. Thankx a lot. > Jim > > -----Original Message----- > From: Windows Home/SOHO [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf > Of James Button > Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2007 1:04 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: How to install slave drive -- ---------------------------------------- To Change your email Address for this list, send the following message: CHANGE WIN-HOME your_old_address your_new_address to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Note carefully that both old and new addresses are required.
