Thanks Derrick, but I just want to use the larger drive as storage now. I have already reinstalled XP on the smaller drive of the working machine on Drive C, and Drive D is the recovery partition. I now have 2 new drives(F & G) that were the two partitions on the larger drive I put in as a slave. F was the old C drive so it still has its copy of XP on it and G was the old recovery partition. SO, now my question is: Do I really need to leave all of that stuff on the Drives F & G? I don't want or need any of it, or do I?? F is NTFS and G is FAT32. Just need more storage space. As this is new to me, I might be somewhat confused, but I can't think of another place I would want to go for for help! Everyone here is so knowledgeable. What seems easy to some is not for others. Jim Button made some good suggestions, but even those are confusing to a novice in this area. And yes, I do have recovery disks for both drives. Maybe what you were telling me is the way to clean up Drives F and G, I don't know for sure what you were trying to tell me. Jim
-----Original Message----- From: Windows Home/SOHO [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Gaffer Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2007 3:33 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: How to install slave drive Hi Jim, By gum, to seem to be making a clean install hard work !!! Compaq hard disk drives have a recovery partition on them. The software is specifically for the machine that it was originally fitted in. I assume that you have the recovery disks for both machines ? If so, all you need to do is fit the bigger drive in the good machine. Boot from the recovery CD for that machine and then choose to remove all the existing partitions when it asks you, then next time round the loop format the whole disk. XP should then install fine. This should leave you with a clean install that you will have to activate using the key on the case sticker of the machine that you are using. Disclaimer: Only do this if you are prepared to lose all the data on that hard disk !!!!! -- Best regards: Derrick. -- ---------------------------------------- WIN-HOME Archives: http://PEACH.EASE.LSOFT.COM/archives/WIN-HOME.html Contact the List Owner about anything: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Official Win-Home List Members Profiles Page http://www.besteffort.com/winhome/Profiles.html
