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slave drive setup
Name: John Date: March 16, 2002 at 21:42:02 Pacific
Comment:
I was using a 1 gig drive. It was set-up with Win98 SE. I purchased a 30 gig drive and have set it up as my master drive with the same OS. I have configured the old drive to become the slave. The computer recognizes the slave drive. I had some files on the slave drive that I wanted to keep. Mainly jpeg and some word docs. How do I set up this drive to become a storage/back-up drive?
Name: jan Date: March 16, 2002 at 21:48:45 Pacific
Reply:
Just copy the files that you want to backup to it. Nothing special is required.
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Response Number 2
Name: DaveM Date: March 16, 2002 at 21:52:09 Pacific
Reply:
Copy all the files you want to the 30 gig, if you didn't when you installed it. I'd suggest keeping all your data in the my documents folder, for ease of backing up.
Wipe the old drive clean (see howtos to the left).
Tweakui has an option to move your "my docs" folder anywhere--move it to the old drive. Train your programs to put files there from now on...usually done thru "options" or "customize" within each application.
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