Adding 2nd hsrd drive

[p.mc]

Hi
AMD Athlon 1.4GHz

512 MB memory

WinXp Home

I currently have a Maxtor 80 GB HDD, and I've just purchased Maxtor 250 GB
HDD.
Am I better off installing the bigger drive as a slave and keeping the
smaller as the primary drive for Win XP. The reason I ask is because I've
had conflicting info on the subject. The latest advice someone gave was to
make the smaller HDD the primary with winxp installed and set the jumper to
master, and have the bigger as the slave, but don't bother putting the
jumper in the back of the unit, then I should right click on "my computer"
select "manage" format the bigger HDD and convert to "NTFS"??

Sorry if it's a bit vague as I'm a bit of a newbie, but with this group
having help and support in the title I thought you might be the best place
to ask.

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[rotric]

Hi
AMD Athlon 1.4GHz

512 MB memory

WinXp Home

I currently have a Maxtor 80 GB HDD, and I've just purchased Maxtor 250 GB
HDD.
Am I better off installing the bigger drive as a slave and keeping the
smaller as the primary drive for Win XP. The reason I ask is because I've
had conflicting info on the subject. The latest advice someone gave was to
make the smaller HDD the primary with winxp installed and set the jumper to
master, and have the bigger as the slave, but don't bother putting the
jumper in the back of the unit, then I should right click on "my computer"
select "manage" format the bigger HDD and convert to "NTFS"??

Sorry if it's a bit vague as I'm a bit of a newbie, but with this group
having help and support in the title I thought you might be the best place
to ask.

Hey pmc, if you want to improve performance, just keep your 80 gb as
your master with the OS and all your apps on it and purchase a hard
drive controller card (ata 133 pci) and run your 250 storage as a master
of that card. Format it to NTFS and your ready.
The card and your drive always come with a cd, so its real easy to do.
If you get the card , prob 40 bucks, slide it into a pci slot and attach
the new drive to it and then just boot of the CD that came with
controller card and carefully follow the screens.
Hope this helps.

 

[Guest]

The mother board should have 2 x IDE controller interface plugs. If so,
then, the best performance for your computer can be achieved if you set up:

80Gb as Master on Primary IDE controller
250Gb as Master on Secondary IDE controller
CD or DVD reader as Slave Primary IDE controller
CD or DVD Burner as Slave on Secondary IDE controller

Keep all the applications and indows on the C Drive and all you personal
files [My Documents] on the D Drive.
After you initialise the new 250Gb drive; right click on the 'My Documents'
folder and choose to 'Move' the folder to your D Drive.
When 'burning' CD or DVDs makle sure that the burning application is set to
Copy the Material onto a temporary file/folder on the C Drive.

This should also make it easier for you to 'backup' your persoanl files on a
regular basis.

 

[p.mc]

The mother board should have 2 x IDE controller interface plugs. If so,
then, the best performance for your computer can be achieved if you set up:

80Gb as Master on Primary IDE controller
250Gb as Master on Secondary IDE controller
CD or DVD reader as Slave Primary IDE controller
CD or DVD Burner as Slave on Secondary IDE controller

Keep all the applications and indows on the C Drive and all you personal
files [My Documents] on the D Drive.
After you initialise the new 250Gb drive; right click on the 'My Documents'
folder and choose to 'Move' the folder to your D Drive.
When 'burning' CD or DVDs makle sure that the burning application is set to
Copy the Material onto a temporary file/folder on the C Drive.

Hi

How do you make a file/folder, temporary?