-=PCTechTalk=- Re: Installing a second hard drive

The typo on this had me rolling my eyes.  ;)

If your OS fits fine on the drive you have and you need extra storage
space, then make the new drive a slave.  It will need no 98 or any other OS
on it.  It just needs to be formatted which windows will probably do for
you once you partition it.  If the OS is running out of room, the best way
to go is to get a quality disk copying software that will expand and
recreate partitions.  You then install the new hard drive as slave, run the
disk image/copy software to the new drive, change the new drive to master
and the old one to slave, and you are *done*.  Everything where you left
off on that big new drive with a new small drive for backup and data.
                                                              

On 5/13/2003 at 9:38 PM a whisper was heard, and the one known as C.E.
Cochran was rumoured to have uttered....

          |  Hi everyone.  I have a computer here with a very
          |  hard small drive, so I want
          |  to put another hard drive in it.  I don't want to lose
          |  anything that's on
          |  the drive that is in it now, I just want to add the additional
          |  drive.  I'm
          |  fairly sure that's possible - I have some questions I'm sure
          |  you will find
          |  very simple but I really have no idea.  Do I just install the
          |  new drive as
          |  slave, and how does the computer recognize it?  Do I install
          |  Windows 98 on
          |  the new drive as well?  How do you make the computer run
          |  programs from both
          |  drives?  I hope I'm making sense with these questions - I've
          |  never had a
          |  computer with more than one hard drive in it so I'm totally
          |  clueless about
          |  this.  Any advice anyone can give me regarding this will be
          |  greatly
          |  appreciated.  I'm comfortable working inside the computer -
          |  I've installed
          |  CD-ROMs, CD-RWs, memory, etc.  I just don't know about hard
          |  drives and how
          |  the programs will run after you put them on more than one
          |  drive - thanks
          |  everyone, Connie C.
          |  
          |  --Somebody's boring me --
          |       I think it's me-- 
          |       Dylan Thomas
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