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If you have two hard drives then the recovery disks will install to the
'master' drive. Your second drive is 'slave' and therefore should remain
untouched. I have two hard drives and 4 operating systems. Two are on the
master and two on the slave.
Although i have a full retail copy of xp home i use the recovery disk that
came witht he pc to quickly install the operating system. When i do this it
completely erases the master drive and then installs the operating system (i
have a full retail copy of xp pro that is imaged so, after installing, i
shrink the partition on the master drive using partition magic down to
around 15GB then create a new partition of 20GB for XP Pro and then image XP
Pro back to the second partition. All of my data and document files are
backed up to my second partition which remains untouched.
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John Barnett MVP
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"Joe L." <Joe L. @discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Will this process be any differnt if I have 2 hard drives. If i back up
> all
> my files to the 2nd hard drive, I want to make sure I don't wipe out that
> one. Does the computer know to wipe out the C drive and not the other?
>
> "Joan Archer" wrote:
>
>> I believe that using that disc will restore your computer to the way it
>> was when it came from the factory, wiping everything out and installing
>> fresh.
>> If you are having problems why not post them here and someone should be
>> able to help, reinstalling is usually the last step in troubleshooting.
>> Joan
>>
>>
>> John wrote:
>> >I want to wipe the hard drive and reinstall windows xp. All I have is
>> > a dell restoration disk.
>> > Is this disk self booting or do I have to create a boot disk?
>> > Is fdisk available to wipe the hard disk on the disk to clean the
>> > drive or do I have to put it on a boot disk?
>>
>>
>>