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I acquired a new pc a few months ago and the existing "small" HD is beginning
to fail. Also discovered the existing copy of XP Pro, SP2 on here is pirated.
*(Yes, I have bought a new full version with SP2 to install)
New drive is a WD 80GB Caviar SE 7200 RPM EIDE drive. Will be formatting NTFS.
The existing drive is a Quantum Fireball LCT, 15GB ATA IDE, 4400 RPM, FAT32.
I have a x86 Dual CPU board with dual CPU's, 1GB SDRAM, Primary & Secondary
IDE, BIOS is updated, new Ultra100 drive cable.
I have already set my CD-ROM to boot 1st.
My concern is once I have the new HD formatted and the new XP Pro installed,
I will not be able to see my old HD and be able to extract files, etc. needed
from there. How will I boot the PC with both HD's containing an OS of XP,
especially one licensed and the other pirated?
All I want is the new WD to boot and then the old drive showing up and
accessable as it is now without getting read only messages, etc. I actually
have most everything I want backed-up through Quicken Online back-up, but not
sure if I could retrieve those files and programs to the new HD with it being
a new format (NTFS).
My plan is to disconnect the existing HD while I format and install XP on
the new HD, then connect back up, is this ok to do? Should I keep the old HD
on the secondary IDE and the bootable CD-ROM and new HD on the Primary IDE
for better performance? Both HD's would be jumpered as Masters correct?
Lastly, suggestions on partitions. This is my 1st HD install by the way, so
be easy on me. This is how I understand it so far....
WD HD Disk "0" - Basic Disk:
1st will be my (active?) partition for booting my new XP correct? What size
partition?
2nd would be my System (primary?) partition which would be Drive C correct?
Size of partition?
Then there is the boot partition which is the same as the system partition?
I would like to have the paging file on it's own partition. Does it matter
where this is partitioned on the HD? Size of partition? A network engineer
suggested to me to make it 5GB.
Besides that, should I have more partitions than that as to not create a
disaster later on down the road?
Lastly, what methos should I use in formatting, etc? Should I use the XP CD,
WD software or Disk Management in the existing pirated copy?
After all is said and done, I'd like to scrub and reformat the existing HD
for other uses. Will I need to install XP on that drive or will it use the XP
copy on my new HD?
Thanks all for reading and any help you can give to this HD newbie. I am
sure I have a few things backwards in my description above.
I acquired a new pc a few months ago and the existing "small" HD is beginning
to fail. Also discovered the existing copy of XP Pro, SP2 on here is pirated.
*(Yes, I have bought a new full version with SP2 to install)
New drive is a WD 80GB Caviar SE 7200 RPM EIDE drive. Will be formatting NTFS.
The existing drive is a Quantum Fireball LCT, 15GB ATA IDE, 4400 RPM, FAT32.
I have a x86 Dual CPU board with dual CPU's, 1GB SDRAM, Primary & Secondary
IDE, BIOS is updated, new Ultra100 drive cable.
I have already set my CD-ROM to boot 1st.
My concern is once I have the new HD formatted and the new XP Pro installed,
I will not be able to see my old HD and be able to extract files, etc. needed
from there. How will I boot the PC with both HD's containing an OS of XP,
especially one licensed and the other pirated?
All I want is the new WD to boot and then the old drive showing up and
accessable as it is now without getting read only messages, etc. I actually
have most everything I want backed-up through Quicken Online back-up, but not
sure if I could retrieve those files and programs to the new HD with it being
a new format (NTFS).
My plan is to disconnect the existing HD while I format and install XP on
the new HD, then connect back up, is this ok to do? Should I keep the old HD
on the secondary IDE and the bootable CD-ROM and new HD on the Primary IDE
for better performance? Both HD's would be jumpered as Masters correct?
Lastly, suggestions on partitions. This is my 1st HD install by the way, so
be easy on me. This is how I understand it so far....
WD HD Disk "0" - Basic Disk:
1st will be my (active?) partition for booting my new XP correct? What size
partition?
2nd would be my System (primary?) partition which would be Drive C correct?
Size of partition?
Then there is the boot partition which is the same as the system partition?
I would like to have the paging file on it's own partition. Does it matter
where this is partitioned on the HD? Size of partition? A network engineer
suggested to me to make it 5GB.
Besides that, should I have more partitions than that as to not create a
disaster later on down the road?
Lastly, what methos should I use in formatting, etc? Should I use the XP CD,
WD software or Disk Management in the existing pirated copy?
After all is said and done, I'd like to scrub and reformat the existing HD
for other uses. Will I need to install XP on that drive or will it use the XP
copy on my new HD?
Thanks all for reading and any help you can give to this HD newbie. I am
sure I have a few things backwards in my description above.