Dual Hard Drive Problem

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George

I recently installed a second hard drive on my Dell 8100 running XP Home.
The drive is a Seagate 160 GB and I used the software "step-by-step" program
that came with the drive to install it. I am not well versed on computer
operations. When the computer boots up a screen pops up that shows Windows
XP on drive C (original drive) and Windows XP on drive F (new drive). The
problem is that when the computer starts, it defaults to the F drive if I do
not manually select the C drive within 30 seconds of the screen displaying
the "select drive" option. Is there a way to change the settings to have
the system default to the C drive that won't give me brain sprain.

Thanks,

George
 
Hi,

hate to say this but......

your first mistake was installing an operating system on your second drive,
especially the same one as on your C drive.

i would recommend you format your 2nd drive and leave it with just a FAT
partition on it.....

you can still copy files to it, and download straight to a folder on that
drive.

the only time you need to install software onto a 2nd drive is when using a
dual boot system, i.e windows Xp and say.....windows ME

hope that helps.

if you want me to go into it in more details for you please email me on
(e-mail address removed)

regards
Josev King
 
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