2nd Hard Drive

[Dingo]

Hi. If I add a second internal hard drive, does my computer recognize
it as just additional gigabytes or as a separate drive? If the latter,
how do I spread the partitions on my first (C drive) drive equally
between the two. Thanks. Dingo

 

[Guest]

-----Original Message-----
Hi. If I add a second internal hard drive, does my computer recognize
it as just additional gigabytes or as a separate drive? If the latter,
how do I spread the partitions on my first (C drive) drive equally
between the two. Thanks. Dingo

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it should recognize it as a separte drive - i have done

both internal and external 2nd drives - both times the
2nd drive would have a different drive letter then the
first. no need to worry about partitions

 

[Ken Blake]

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Hi. If I add a second internal hard drive, does my computer recognize
it as just additional gigabytes or as a separate drive?

It will be a separate drive, with a drive letter (or letters) of
its own.

If the
latter, how do I spread the partitions on my first (C drive) drive
equally between the two.

Sorry, I'm not sure I understand that question. Can you clarify
what you mean, please?

 

[DL]

You install second drive as slave, then use Disk management to format it.
Yr sys will see it as a seperate disk.
To amend partition sizes on a individual disk you need third party software
eg Partition Magic
You cannot move applications to the new disk, without uninstalling and
reinstalling, using custom install method.
You can move data, My Documents folder, and win.swap file

 

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Hi,

It is additional space where you can create additional volumes and/or
partitions. Normally, one would not expand the existing partitions unless
they were using dynamic disks (most home users will not use this). After
installing, start/run diskmgmt.msc, then right-click the free space on the
new drive to begin partitioning.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

 

[Rock]

There is no win.swap file in XP. It's called the pagefile, file name is
pagefile.sys

DL wrote:

 

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You install second drive as slave, then use Disk management to format it.
Yr sys will see it as a seperate disk.
To amend partition sizes on a individual disk you need third party
software
eg Partition Magic
You cannot move applications to the new disk, without uninstalling and
reinstalling, using custom install method.

well technically speaking, applications CAN be moved to a new drive if
you're familiar with creating junctions to map the old (empty)
application directory to the new location. basically, the child directories
of the old apps directory are copied to the new location (recreated
verbatim), then wipe-out the contents of the old apps folder (but not the
parent folder itself), then create a junction (hardlink) from old apps
directory to new
apps directory on the new drive. it can be tricky, but i've done it, and it
works fine. i don't recommend it for the faint of heart though. ;-)
hardlinks and junctions can be very useful, a more familiar example of a
junction in
windows xp is a hard disk volume mounted at an empty folder on a different
drive.

for more details on junctions and to get a utility for creating them:
http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/source/misc.shtml#junction

 

[Plato]

Hi. If I add a second internal hard drive, does my computer recognize
it as just additional gigabytes or as a separate drive? If the latter,
how do I spread the partitions on my first (C drive) drive equally
between the two. Thanks. Dingo

It will see it as a separate drive. Interesting question actually.