transfer windows xp home

[Guest]

i have just built a new computer and i have currently got 2 hard drives, the
master is only 15GB which has windows xp installed and the other is a 80Gb
slave hard drive. is it possible 2 install windows xp home (retail version)
on the 80Gb hard drive in the new computer, so starting the new computer off
the 80Gb drive and still have the data on the 15Gb. or will i have 2 format
the 15Gb drive brfore, if so how do i format the drive?

thank you for any replys

 

[RobertVA]

i have just built a new computer and i have currently got 2 hard drives, the
master is only 15GB which has windows xp installed and the other is a 80Gb
slave hard drive. is it possible 2 install windows xp home (retail version)
on the 80Gb hard drive in the new computer, so starting the new computer off
the 80Gb drive and still have the data on the 15Gb. or will i have 2 format
the 15Gb drive brfore, if so how do i format the drive?

thank you for any replys

Just reconfigure the drives so that the 80GB one is master and the 15GB
is the slave. Depending on your hardware this may involve relocating
jumpers at the back end of the drive or swapping the hard drive data
cables. You may be offered the choice of booting two Windows XP Home
installations on startup.

If you want to format the 15 GB drive that function is available in the
second column of the Windows XP start menu under "Administrative
Tools/Computer Management". When the "Computer Management" window opens,
expand the "Storage" branch of the tree in the left pane and click "Disk
Management". You can then right click the icon for the 15 GB drive in
the right pane and select "Format...". Make sure you copy any data you
want to save to the 80 GB drive before you format the 15 GB one!

 

[Guest]

i'd reinstall from scratch.

and then copy over the info you want to keep.

it won't take that long.

i have reinstalled windows proabbly 200 times in the past 10 years.

nope-- probably 400 times.