Slave Drive as System/Windows drive

[daswiftguyda]

I was wondering if anybody could answer this question as I don'twant t
risk taking any action until i know for sure. Thanks in advance for an
answers.

Ok, heres the question:

My girlfriend recently bought a new 80 Gig drive for her comp as sh
was running really low on disk space (on average less than 300MB). Fai
enough I installed the new 80 Gig as the slave and formatted it as NFT
(original system drive FAT32 and 4GB), and planned to put anything ne
(movies music etc) onto the new 80 drive and keep all system files o
orignal 4gig. The problem was though all windows updates still instal
to the original 4 Gig drive which is causing a lot of problems, so i
planning to copy everything from the 4gig drive to the 80, and use tha
as the Windows/System drive, format the 4gig (in NFTS) and just hav
that as a periphial drive to stash stuff on. So, to my question(s) are
do i have to change the master/slave configuration if i want th
(currently slave) drive to be the windows drive, and will there be an
problems copying a FAT32 drive to a NFTS drive. Thanks agian for an
help, any more info needed just ask

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

I was wondering if anybody could answer this question as I don'twant to
risk taking any action until i know for sure. Thanks in advance for any
answers.

Ok, heres the question:

My girlfriend recently bought a new 80 Gig drive for her comp as she
was running really low on disk space (on average less than 300MB). Fair
enough I installed the new 80 Gig as the slave and formatted it as NFTS
(original system drive FAT32 and 4GB), and planned to put anything new
(movies music etc) onto the new 80 drive and keep all system files on
orignal 4gig. The problem was though all windows updates still install
to the original 4 Gig drive which is causing a lot of problems, so im
planning to copy everything from the 4gig drive to the 80, and use that
as the Windows/System drive, format the 4gig (in NFTS) and just have
that as a periphial drive to stash stuff on. So, to my question(s) are,
do i have to change the master/slave configuration if i want the
(currently slave) drive to be the windows drive, and will there be any
problems copying a FAT32 drive to a NFTS drive. Thanks agian for any
help, any more info needed just ask.

It is not possible to just "copy" an active installation to another
drive. It would never run. Here are a couple of options:

- Use the cloning program that some disk manufacturers make
available on their web site.
- Use a disk imaging program such as DriveImage (PowerQuest)
or TrueImage (Acronis).

I recommend that you split your hard disk into two partitions:
- 15 GBytes for WinXP and applications
- 65 GBytes for data files

 

[Guest]

If you want to make your life difficult, you can move your sytem over to the
80Gb drive. Of course you'll need cloning software and then after you've
cloned from C4 Gb to 80Gb you will need to reconfigure [re cable and re
jumper] the drives such that the 80Gb becomes the primary master and the 4Gb
becomes the secondary master or slave on either IDE interface.

AFter that you can try booting off the 80Gb drive, but will most likely need
to perform a repair installation due to the changes in hard drive.

Save a lot of time [if you prefer]. Configure the 80Gb drive as the
secondary master or slave on either IDE interface. Now boot up and Right
Click on the My Documents Folder: select Properties, then press the moove
button and point to your D Drive.

This should get you back a lot of space.

Additionally you can go through a similar process and move the SWAP file and
Internet History files [these will use up anything up to 1Gb].

Reboot the PC for these changes to take effect and then run Disk Cleanup to
remove all temp files and clear internet temp files etc. After that defrag
the C Drive.

This should give you lots of free space and an efficient system again.
Withjoput the expense of Disk Management Software.