Hi Jim, On Thursday 11 January 2007 21:20, Jim Poer inscribed thus: > 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.
Grief ! No wonder your confused. I had to read that several times ! > 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 Basically you have to ask yourself what do I want to do ! Do you want to keep any data from either of the drives ? Do you want to start again with a clean install of XP ? Do you want to stick with what you have and do nothing more ? > -----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. Note to moderators. Please can I have some more lines. Pretty please ! :-) -- Best regards: Derrick. Pontefract Linux Users Group. plug at play-net.co.uk -- ---------------------------------------- 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
