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Extra Hard Drives

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  • 11-11-2002 2:14am
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    milltown
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    ATM I've got a 20GB hdd in my box running windows xp. In work I found a couple (4 actually) of 2-3.5GB drives that were destined for the bin. Windows XP is soon to be replaced by Win2K on my system but I want to fit at least one of the drives beforehand to back up my MP3 collection. Will winXP find and configure the new drive automatically (I'm wondering about Fat32 vs. NTFS)? Or will I need to monkey around with fdisk first?
    Further down the road I plan to fit another one of these drives and install LINUX (is that a dirty word in the MS forum?) for a dual boot system, any advice here would be most welcome too!
    Presumptious I know, but before anybody suggests a bigger hdd and partition magic, I tried that before and lost 2 years worth of MP3s when changing OS, not entirely Microsoft's fault, granted, but now I know my limitations!
    All IDE drives BTW.


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    Dun
    Registered Users Posts: 1,967 ✭✭✭Dun


    Originally posted by milltown
    ATM I've got a 20GB hdd in my box running windows xp. In work I found a couple (4 actually) of 2-3.5GB drives that were destined for the bin. Windows XP is soon to be replaced by Win2K on my system but I want to fit at least one of the drives beforehand to back up my MP3 collection. Will winXP find and configure the new drive automatically (I'm wondering about Fat32 vs. NTFS)? Or will I need to monkey around with fdisk first?

    No need for fdisk with xp. Set the jumpers correctly and XP should recognise the disk. If it isn't there, then go into the Computer Management Console and you can create a partition on the new drive in the Disk Management panel.
    Originally posted by milltown
    Further down the road I plan to fit another one of these drives and install LINUX (is that a dirty word in the MS forum?) for a dual boot system, any advice here would be most welcome too!
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    [Off-MS-OS-topic]Linux will handle it fine - get a distro like Mandrake 8+ that will handle the hard disk configuration easily.[/Off-MS-OS-topic]

    Afaik, you will need to ensure you have sufficient IDE controllers to install more than two hard drives, especially if you have both two cd(-rw/rom)/dvd ide devices.


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    milltown
    Registered Users Posts: 4,616 ✭✭✭milltown


    Thanks a million M8


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    sceptre
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    Originally posted by dun_do_bheal
    [Off-MS-OS-topic]Linux will handle it fine - get a distro like Mandrake 8+ that will handle the hard disk configuration easily.[/Off-MS-OS-topic]

    Red Hat 8 is also a lot better at this than previous incarnations


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