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| Thread ID: 82049 | 2007-08-14 15:41:00 | How to work 2 Hard drives..? | russell108 (7499) | Press F1 |
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| 580982 | 2007-08-14 15:41:00 | I have 2 hard drives ,one 160GB and the other 40GB..how do i make one for storage only and the other for the OS ? I have partition manager 8.5 if that helps any ? |
russell108 (7499) | ||
| 580983 | 2007-08-14 16:44:00 | Well . . . having 8 500g hdds and a root drive of 40g, I can honestly say that the easiest way is to just point the data you want to save onto the disk/folder/file you want and let 'er fly I have a simple saying: "He who(m) controls their files . . . . owns their computer" . . . and somehow I have seen this is a very good way to judge if a person has control of their electronic environment . I never allow the default setting to tell me where I will put my data . . . there are a FEW exception: Windows will NOT allow you to put some things anywhere else but right next to the OPSYS or <rootdrive> . . but that is the only exception that I allow . All else goes where I want it . This includes WMP, Picasa, OpenOffice and of course all my security programs . There are settings in each of them to send and store files where YOU want . I don't allow "My Documents", "My Music", "My Pictures" etc, to contain anything either . They try to default to the root drive and I want that just for the XP installation . You can also signify that the root drive be any drive you want . . I have one XP installation on my J drive, and the BIOS finds it quite well . |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 580984 | 2007-08-14 16:52:00 | Ok so if i have the 40GB drive as my operating system how to i make the larger one for storage only ? Do i format it or something ? | russell108 (7499) | ||
| 580985 | 2007-08-14 18:29:00 | I thought that when you install windows for example windows xp it would let you choose which harddrive you want to install..? | Ninjabear (2948) | ||
| 580986 | 2007-08-14 19:52:00 | In your situation, this is what I would do: Open the case, disconnect the 160GB drive, and ensure the 40GB drive is connected to IDE1 (primary IDE channel) as master. Install XP to that harddrive. Shut down computer, connect the 160GB drive as slave on IDE1, restart the computer, and once it has booted into XP, use the disk management in XP to format the second drive (160GB) If you are unsure of what you are doing in the case, don't touch and let a proper tech do it :) |
Myth (110) | ||
| 580987 | 2007-08-14 20:28:00 | Or slave your CD/DVD on IDE1 and put your second drive as master on IDE2. Your CD/DVD and second drive should show up in My Computer or Windows Explorer as D and E but they can be changed if you want later. Create a suitable directory structure on your new data drive eg My_Docs etc. Likes of Word can be set to default to there as your work folder defaults, you can even make windows change c:\my documents over to the new HDD. |
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