So: C the OS partition is on the small drive that is master on IDE channel 0 port 0 partition 1 D is the system recovery partition on the small drive that is master on IDE channel 0 port 0 partition 2 E is the CD-ROM F the old OS partition on the large drive that is master on IDE channel 0 port 1 partition 1 G is on the small drive that is master on IDE channel 0 port 1 partition 2
If neither of the partitions C or D are active, then the question is how did the system boot with just this drive in the case is there a boot.ini file in the root directory of partition 1 on this drive? F is active as it was OS partition, and the hardware will use it to boot IF the drive on port 0 is not bootable) Given that the old system that this drive came from will never be reused, and you have recovery/restore CD's for the working OS, I'd suggest you reformat (quick) the 7.31Gb partition (currently known as G) on this drive as NTFS and use it for a backup copy of your personally entered data and email. You should then 'rescue' anything you want from the big partition (currently known as F) onto this new NTFS partition and finally reformat that big partition (quick, and still as NTFS) (re my earlier suggestion to have 3 partitions, I'd somehow got it into my mind that the 'new' drive was 100GB) You may want to disable indexing for these NTFS partitions - that will save some disk space and a fair amount of disk access time - Properties and untick the box - do it for subfolders etc.) I'd suggest that you should consider getting a DVD-RW drive - with software and replace the CDROM DVD's are more robust and easier to use While you are doing that, you'd probably get better performance with the boot drive on the primary cable, and the DVD drive and second hard drive on the secondary port (cable) that allows the boot drive, and one of the others on the other port to be used concurrently (unless most of your use of the CD/DVD will be copying to, or from partitions on the 'new' drive) JimB ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Poer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2007 7:58 PM Subject: FW: How to install slave drive > >are either of those partitions marked as being 'ACTIVE' > > G is not active. That is the recovery drive(2nd partition) from the larger > drive > I put in. What does that mean??. > C is not active(booting to here-smaller drive). D is not active(2nd > partition on smaller drive). > > F is active(big partition on large drive,used to be C drive on large > drive before the move) > > 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 > -- ---------------------------------------- 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.
