HDD Instal Questions

Sunday, August 16, 2009 by angus1949 | Discussion: Personal Computing

I just installed a new 500Gb HDD and installed XP.  I have an old 40Gb HDD that I want to remove and in turn use my original 320Gb HDD as a slave drive.  Will this cause problems since XP is on the 320 drive too?  I assume I will have to format using disk management?  Thanks for any input.

MadDeez
Reply #1 Sunday, August 16, 2009 3:34 PM

nope. as long as the bios says to boot to the 500, there aren't any issues with xp being on the 320.

angus1949
Reply #2 Sunday, August 16, 2009 3:44 PM

So just install the drive and format?

MadDeez
Reply #3 Sunday, August 16, 2009 4:00 PM

yes. as long as the bios is set to boot to the 500, there are no issues. just boot into winders and format the 320.

angus1949
Reply #4 Sunday, August 16, 2009 4:15 PM

Thanks very much

SyDaemon
Reply #5 Sunday, August 16, 2009 7:58 PM

Be sure to install whatever OS you wish on the master drive before installing your slave drive in.

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