I bught a new hard drive (40Gig) and would like to know is there a way I can copy the old hard drive (6 gig)to it. If I do this will the o/s from the smaller hd work on new hard drive work? Or would it be better to run o/s off of the smaller hd and use the larger one for data storage. Or put the o/s on the new HD as(master) and have the smaller one as the slave. Will ther be a conflict if I have ME on both drives?

My other question regards partitioning the larger hard drive. The smaller the partition size the less space that is wasted. (40 gig)

Do I need an o/s on each partition?

I tried to make an extended partition on the smaller hd b/4 installing ME to it but Me balked at it and I ended up having to reformat the drive before re-installing it. My understanding from one of the articals that I was was directed to said that the hard drive would work better having an extended partition.

I borrowed Partition Majic from a friend. I would like to split the larger drive into about 4 partitions. I would like to make backups of the system on a regular basis, either to another partition or hard drive.

If the system seases to work on the main active partition will I loose all of that data on the other partitions?

Thank You for all your help.
Chipper

Holy cow, that's a lot to cover. I'll take a turn at some of it.

Yes, you can "ghost" the old drive to the new.

Yes, you can use either drive as Primary or slave.

No, each partition doesn't require an OS - you only need a single OS for the entire computer.

Yes, you ~can~ install Win Me on each hard drive, but there's not much sense in it unless you have a specific reason. If you did that, you would need a third-party boot manager to select which OS to boot every time you started the computer.

I'm not sure about working better with an extended partition, as you read in the article. Having multiple partitions is a good idea, but I don't see why extended/logical partitions would be better than primary partitions - each drive can have up to four primary partitions, or three primary with an extended partition that can contain a large number of logical partitions.

Best Wishes,
Bob

y partition? u have 2 drives now use ur old one as a slave and u can use it as a backup as well.
only the OS on the C: will be booted up unless u use the said boot manager but in ur case i don't c a point... coz ur thinking of putting winme on both. If u put w2k and winme on each then thats a different story.

hello
yes you can clone your drive. no you do not want to run two harddrives with the exact same o/s on them. as boot devices. m.e will not see the second drive like posted above with out a thrid party bootmanager.
partion magic will do what you want data on a diferant partion than the o/s is useally safe from all but hd failler and acedental reformating and or detion of files.