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| Thread ID: 35908 | 2003-07-25 10:16:00 | Complications in installing 2nd Hard Drive | ssssss (2100) | Press F1 |
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| 162718 | 2003-07-25 10:16:00 | I have been reading the posts on Beaver's problem, and I am horrified - it sounds so complicated and difficult to understand. I want to install a 2nd HD on my HP Windows Me computer, and thought it would be a simple matter. I am in the process of buying a Western Digital 80 GB HD Hopefully I can add the hardware OK, and DSE have advised me to make that the slave drive. Am I now right in thinking I will have the same problems that Beaver is having, or is that something else? - Hopefully I won't! What does concern me is that I don't know how I am going to handle files (My documents and program files) with 2 harddrives. Can someone give me a few hints, please? If this is going to be a difficult business, would it be recommended doing away with having 2 drives, and just replacing the old one, and reinstalling software with the HP recovery disc, + my data file backups? |
ssssss (2100) | ||
| 162719 | 2003-07-25 10:26:00 | Its easy if you set it to slave and have plugs for it ya just plug it in start computer and format it. You should goto a computer shop you can get one cheap than getting it from dse. |
BootyLicious (526) | ||
| 162720 | 2003-07-25 10:29:00 | Have a look here http://www.pricespy.co.nz/ | BootyLicious (526) | ||
| 162721 | 2003-07-25 10:37:00 | It is NOT complicated. Just set as slave and plug in. Beaver's is different, as she want's her OS on it. Bye |
Peter H (220) | ||
| 162722 | 2003-07-25 10:43:00 | Thanks - But will I have any touble finding files, with 2 drives? How will My documents appear, for instance? Will they be spread across 2 drives, and if so does one have to open My documents on each drive separately to find the file you want? |
ssssss (2100) | ||
| 162723 | 2003-07-25 10:51:00 | Is this 2nd hard drive just for storing data on? In which case, you can just make some partitions on it, format them and then use it like you would normally when accessing files with windows explorer. | Jen C (20) | ||
| 162724 | 2003-07-25 10:55:00 | when your number 2 drive is installed you will have a C: drive and a D: drive in your MY COMPUTER folder. On C: drive you will have your OS (windows Xp,me,98,2000) and your installed programs. D: drive will be like one big folder, you just click on D: drive in my computer folder to open it. you can put what ever you want in it. |
BootyLicious (526) | ||
| 162725 | 2003-07-25 11:02:00 | Thanks, you are very helpful and I am relieved it 'shouldn't' be too difficult. If I want to install extra programs, I expect the computer will automatically put them on the D Drive , as there won't be room on the first drive. Is that right? And one other thing - I have been told to type in fdisk to format and partition the second drive. How many partitions would you suggest I need? |
ssssss (2100) | ||
| 162726 | 2003-07-25 11:07:00 | As it is a 80 gig drive, I would divide it into at least 3 partitions. This makes defragging etc much easier. As your other drive is full, you can transfer over things like music, photo's etc to the new drive to make more room on the old one. When you are installing new programs, it is best they reside on the C drive with the OS. | Jen C (20) | ||
| 162727 | 2003-07-25 11:09:00 | I think it is very easy for us to forget how daunting it can be for someone to do this sort of thing for the first time. It's like anything else (well, almost) once you have done it a few times then it becomes easy. You know, it's not a bad idea to buy an old banger of a computer for a few dollars, just to pull apart and play with to see where things go, practice formatting etc. |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
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