Windows XP on two hard drives question

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I had/have a spyware/virus on one of my hard drives. I purchased a new hard drive and reinstalled Windows XP on to it. The New hard drive has four partitons and is my master drive. The orginal hard drive is sitting in the computer not hooked up yet. It has one big partiton on it. There is alot of information on the orginal drive that I would like to transfer over to the new drive before wiping it. My question is since I have C partiton on both drives how does Windows XP handle it if I hook up the infected drive as a slave drive. Will it rename the C partiton of the slave drive as say G ( which would be the next available partiton letter)? All I want to be able to do is copy the needed programs and files from the old drive then wipe it but just want to make sure I boot from the clean installation on the new drive. Any info on how to proceed and what to watch for would be apprecciated

Thanks
Fuzzy
 
You can install the old drive and set as slave on the IDE chain,xp wil
re-set to a diffrent letter,you might need to go to run,type:diskmgmt.ms
In mgmt,L.click the old drive,go to actions,all,set as active.
 
Fuzzy said:
Hello folks

I had/have a spyware/virus on one of my hard drives. I purchased a
new hard drive and reinstalled Windows XP on to it. The New hard
drive has four partitons and is my master drive. The orginal hard
drive is sitting in the computer not hooked up yet. It has one big
partiton on it. There is alot of information on the orginal drive
that I would like to transfer over to the new drive before wiping it.
My question is since I have C partiton on both drives how does
Windows XP handle it if I hook up the infected drive as a slave
drive. Will it rename the C partiton of the slave drive as say G (
which would be the next available partiton letter)? All I want to be
able to do is copy the needed programs and files from the old drive
then wipe it but just want to make sure I boot from the clean
installation on the new drive. Any info on how to proceed and what to
watch for would be apprecciated.

Thanks
Fuzzy
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Just install it as the primary slave or secondary master or secondary slave.
You will need to set the jumpers according to the hard drive manufacturer
settings. XP does not know it was once the boot drive because it is not
listed in the current boot up instructions.
You can delete the following hidden files from the old drive: Boot.ini,
Bootsect.dos, hiberfil.sys, ntbootdd.sys, Ntdetect.com, Ntldr, Pagefile.sys.
Once you retrieve the data, you can format the drive from Disk Management.

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