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Installing a second hard drive
Name: Tanya Date: September 9, 2002 at 09:28:23 Pacific OS: Windows XP CPU/Ram: Pentium III 866 MHz/256 M
Comment:
I recently installed a secondary 40G HD to my PC. After a couple of hours of trying to figure out how to be able to format and part my HD, I realized that in the "My computer" window, the drive which I partitioned is written in blue instead of in black as for my drive c! Is that normal or am I missing something?
Also, I want to format my Primary HD. After copying all of the information that I want to keep, how should I proceed to format my disk. I want to completly reset the hard drive. No more symtem files, registration keys, etc! Thanks in advance.
Name: Tanya Date: September 9, 2002 at 09:37:36 Pacific
Reply:
BTW : My C Drive is FAT32 and the new HD partitioned F & G are NTFS.
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Response Number 2
Name: amor Date: September 9, 2002 at 09:47:14 Pacific
Reply:
Ok, how did you format the secondary disk. Sounds like you use computer mangement. Well anyways, NTFS partition Labels, in windows xp are shown as blue. It's very normal and is a quick way to differiate Windows File Systems. NTFS partitions cannot be read by Windows9x/Me.
If you format you primary you will then have to reinstall windows. Pop into the cd and boot from there.
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