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

Sorry about the typo - I guess that sounded pretty strange.  Thanks for your
reply - I'm still not sure about the partitioning part of this, but from
your and the other replies I received along with some research on the web, I
think I understand how to do this (installing the hard drive).  Thanks again
for taking the time to help me out with this.

Connie C.




> 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.
>
>


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