>So we now have a mystery - what happened to the partition letters D and E D is the original drive for original PC with smaller drive, I guess restore type info E is the original CDROM drive
>what is the size, type and formatting of partitions F and G F is the new large drive formatted to NTFS(49Gigs)-Local Disk G is the large drive orginal recovery stuff formattted to FAT32(7.31Gigs)-Local Disk Question--What happened to the other 4G of space on 60G drive?? >are either of those partitions marked as being 'ACTIVE' I don't know what you mean by active?? Jim -----Original Message----- From: Windows Home/SOHO [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of James Button Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2007 2:04 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: How to install slave drive 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) -- ---------------------------------------- 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.
