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From: "Jim Poer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2007 16:20
Subject: Re: How to install slave drive
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.
If it were me, I would reassign drive E as R for cdRom and drive D as Z
(just to get it out of your face). Then delete the partitions on the second
drive, create a new partition, assign it to drive D and reformat it.
Did you actually use the recovery partition when you reinstalled or just
from CDs? If the latter and you don't need it, reformat it and use it for
your swap drive.
Regards,
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Rick Cogan from Melbourne, FL
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