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Second HD
Name: Behrouz Date: April 25, 2004 at 11:51:03 Pacific OS: NT CPU/Ram: /512
Comment:
How can I add a second hard drive when the OS is NT?
Name: wanderer Date: April 25, 2004 at 21:08:27 Pacific
Reply:
Easy. Put it in a different system and wipe the drive. No partitions. Or put it in the NT system and using a boot diskette wipe the drive.
Then mount NT and use disk administrator to partiton and format the drive.
Reason for the wipe recommendation is if you have two or more existing partitions on your present drive, adding an existing partitioned drive will mess up the drive letters and at worse NT will crash.
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