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2nd hard drive for storage
Name: ron45 Date: June 15, 2005 at 13:49:01 Pacific OS: windows me CPU/Ram: pentium 160ram
Comment:
I just put in a new 40g hard drive. Old HD is 8g. The 40g is set as master and I put the 8g in as slave to get some files off of it. I figured as long as it's still hooked up I would like to use it as a storage drive. My question is, can I delete ME and other programs I don't need off the 8g drive without reformatting it to make more space available on it without screwing anything up?
Name: Jennifer SUMN Date: June 15, 2005 at 16:14:00 Pacific
Reply:
As long as your OS is installed on your Primary Master and you're booting to that drive, then you should be able to delete files from the second (old) drive.
However, I'd recommend that you make the old drive Secondary Master as opposed to Primary Slave.
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Response Number 2
Name: ron45 Date: June 15, 2005 at 19:06:03 Pacific
Reply:
Thanks Jennifer, just out of curiosity what is the advantage to making the old drive secondary master?
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Response Number 3
Name: Jennifer SUMN Date: June 16, 2005 at 06:10:54 Pacific
Reply:
Well, it's just my preference... As opposed to making it a Primary Slave or Secondary Slave. Advantages? That I couldn't say. :)
Summary: I have two hard drives. The Master HD (c:) works fine and I can copy files from it to the Slave HD (d:) with no problems. When I install a program with my cd-rom and want to install it on my 2nd har...
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