Slave drive partitions/data corruption booting w/ different W2K master drive?

[Ruzzzzo]

Sorry for the re-post. My earlier message was not what I
intended to post. Please be kind. I need help with this
one.

My 30Gb master W2K system drive crashed and I'm replacing
it with the original 20Gb W2K system drive that already
has Windows 2000 and most of the software I use installed
on it. The 20Gb W2K drive was removed before I added the
30Gb master drive and a 120Gb slave drive which I divided
into four partitions. Can I go ahead and connect and boot
the two drives together without corrupting the partitions
or data on the 120Gb slave? All drives are formatted with
Windows 2000 FAT 32, not NTFS.

If it's likely that booting the two drives together will
corrupt the partitions or data on the 120Gb slave drive,
is there any software that can be used to get around this?
I have Power Quest Partition Magic 8.0 which I haven't
installed yet. Would this work? Would converting the
master and slave drive to NTFS format get around this? I
do not want to lose the data on the slave drive.

Thanks

 

[philo]

Sorry for the re-post. My earlier message was not what I
intended to post. Please be kind. I need help with this
one.

My 30Gb master W2K system drive crashed and I'm replacing
it with the original 20Gb W2K system drive that already
has Windows 2000 and most of the software I use installed
on it. The 20Gb W2K drive was removed before I added the
30Gb master drive and a 120Gb slave drive which I divided
into four partitions. Can I go ahead and connect and boot
the two drives together without corrupting the partitions
or data on the 120Gb slave? All drives are formatted with
Windows 2000 FAT 32, not NTFS.

If it's likely that booting the two drives together will
corrupt the partitions or data on the 120Gb slave drive,
is there any software that can be used to get around this?
I have Power Quest Partition Magic 8.0 which I haven't
installed yet. Would this work? Would converting the
master and slave drive to NTFS format get around this? I
do not want to lose the data on the slave drive.

Thanks

unless one drive has a virus on it...
there's no reason i can think of why it could possibly corrupt
a second drive

win2000 can use either fat32 or NTFS