Adding a hard drive

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I currently have one 11Gb hard drive that near capacity
and would like to add a 2nd drive. I have a drive that I
removed from an old Win98 computer that I'd like to use
which has the OS and data, which I'd like to remove. What
steps are necessary to add this drive?

tks,
steve
 
Hello
Set the jumpers on the main HDD to Master, set the jumper on the second HDD
to Slave, install the HDD hook the master to the end connector & the slave
to the center connector on the IDE cable.
Start the computer go to My Computer, the new drive should be in there right
click it and choose format then format it to Fat32 or NTFS which ever you
desire.

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Hope This Helps
Haus
Not a MVP
Not a MS-MVP
Not nothing just a good ole boy..;)
 
Hi, Steve.

Haus explained one good way to do it. After physically installing the old
drive as slave, I prefer to use Disk Management. This built-in utility was
new in Windows 2000, four years ago, but many users still haven't found it.
I suppose that's because Microsoft buried it under layers of mouse-clicks so
that newbies wouldn't stumble over it and hurt themselves. A quick way to
find it is to type at the Run prompt: diskmgmt.msc

Disk Management replaces the utilities FDISK and Format.exe, from MS-DOS,
and the "drive" letter assignment function formerly handled by Device
Manager in Win9x/ME. It creates and deletes partitions and logical drives,
and formats or reformats them. Use this to delete the existing partition(s)
on your old drive, create one or more new ones, and format them. Unless you
plan to install Win9x/ME on this computer, format it NTFS all the way. (If
you like, you can copy your data from that drive before deleting the
partition.)

RC
 
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