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Issues with storing files on NTFS and FAT32?
User swaps the motherboard and CPU chip for an upgraded one, swaps the video adapter, adds a second hard drive for additional storage, doubles the amount of RAM, What can I (and cannot) do to my system before I get into the 'activation' issues? Thanks again, H. --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free.by AVG.

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I plan to buy a second hard drive and I also have a DVD and a CD-Rewriter. Are there any compatibility (or other) issues regarding the two hard drives? Do they have to have the same speed or interface for example? What are the differences between IDE and UDMA-133? What about the primary/secondary and master/slave

Second hard drive memory leak? Could it be?
I've read about some issues when you mix and match, but not sure how acurate they are. I'm trying to get some other input on how to utilize this second hard drive. This is the first time I've partisioned a drive.......which I planned on using to install games, etc. Can the slave be accessed as quickly as the

W2K / XP multiboot, question for advanced users (disk partitions)
It is a MUST that I get to/ mount/ map, or whatever to that second hard drive. If not, then I guess VM won't work for me. Again, I am a nooby, so there is probably an easy solution (I hope)! As with many VMware issues, the best approach to this is to forget you are using VMware and pretend you have two physical

I guess half a hard drive is better than none ...
Lee Chapelle l...@NSmvps.org microsoft public win98 gen_discussion Bob, there are some small issues to check, which I could do in a few minutes if I were there, but.. essentially given a few of the right tools, you can do WONDERS. You need more than a boot disk to boot a secondary IDE drive, some BIOS will allow

Hard Drive issues
So all I can think of is that the master slave jumpers might be set incorrectly, or if you are using an ATA 100 cable, do you have the black connector in the primary and the gray in the secondary? Is the bios set up with the 17 Gig as Primary Master also? Unless for some reason hooking the second drive in keeps the

New 2nd Hard Drive
Can I add a second Hard Drive of 7200 rpm ATA 100? My system is a Compaq Presario BW 251. Any help will be appreciated Yes. For best performance you should I have both mine on the same cable and I have some 'issues' (posted here). It would be hard for me to put them on different cables due to the location of my

Settling a dispute over using a second hard drive
The balance of the system files can reside on the second hard drive. If, as I deduce from your posting, you can only use one hard disk at a time, These will explain your issues to you in considerable detail. -- Bob Delaney Microsoft Desktop Systems MVP "dennis" <sanitarium...@msn.com> wrote in message

2nd hard drive and windows ME
In the past 2 months, I've tried installing SuSE 8.2 on my system's second hard drive. At first, I had an old 7 GB drive, which turned out to be pooched. Here's my issue with this post: "They say........." "They say............." I don't CARE what anyone says or do not say!! What GRUB error.....? with

ongoing boot loader issues
While I have little doubt that I would be successful adding the second hard drive to my PC and installing Linux on it, the small amount of doubt prevents me from doing it - for now. I will likely do it soon, once the machine is not longer being used as much. linux has ocassionally had issues where XP has been

Hard Drive Issues
1) That the second hard drive that your booting from is formatted with the correct file system that you chose in TD, and that the partition is marked there are any other steps that apply to the situation of a Windows 2000 development system and/or whether there are any known hardware compatibility issues.

SS51G issues
Also, if these procedures are relatively safe, should I just leave my second hard drive connected (contains my important backup files) so I don't mess with the partition table? However, it may be necessary to install Windows Me in a new folder if: You are troubleshooting hardware or software issues.

Dell Dimension 2300 - second hard drive issues
How about stacking the two HD on top of each other in the 3 1/2 " drive bay area? The second HD could be 7200rpm or 5400 rpm. Any suggestions or recommendations are appreciated. I am a bit hardware savvy, but don't really know about IDE issues with two hard drives, or temps of7200 rpm drives.

Hardware issues
Or are you hiding the partitions on the Primary master and installling to the second drive? You can install XP to the second hard drive, but the first drive must have its boot partition visible and accessible, so that XP can put the boot loader files there. There are also issues with some 3rd party IDE controller

Extreme frustration w/buffer overruns
When I go into workspace to change my secondary hard drive to a record volume it wont let me. It gives me the error message: Drive cannot be designated as an audio record volume because it is not an audio volume. This problem is weird because it was working just fine b4 I reformatted it. If anyone could help me it

Apple's dishonest propaganda
To make this issue tractable, I need to describe my system's configuration a bit. It is a bit unusual and this my be the root of the problems. Yes, it is. It also has a bay for a removable device which may be a hard drive or a CD/DVD. At this time, I am booting with a second hard drive with two slices.

Changing Hard Drive Issues with Windows 98
Finally, what is the capacity of the 2nd drive you want to use? ... Ben Myers On Wed, 24 Jan 2007 20:19:31 GMT, "Cat-0-9-Tales" <res0c09t....@verizon.net> wrote: Hello again all: How do I get a second hard drive to read? Every time I hook up a slave (formatted or unformatted) hd I get a black screen "No bootable

second hard drive unrecognised
It occurs to me that there is also another issue going on. Three times, I've seen a freeze. The first time, in the BIOS screen, it had been on for awhile, I could not select anything on the screen, had to shutdown. The second time, when I made an error in product key entry in W98SE install, I couldn't go back to

Two "expert" issues I must solve before upgading
Try putting HDD on Secondary IDE connector (making CDROM the Secondary Slave if possible.) At this point, I'd be starting from scratch. Disconnect all drives except floppy, reseat RAM, Then connect HDD and again run diagnostics/workout app from floppy boot (look at drive manufacturer's site for tools.

Hard Drive Woes
This is a common mistake, particularly those that are accustomed to PCs where the cabling of MFM and IDE disks handles the addressing issues (flipped wires MIL I just added a second hard drive to my Indigo2. its an external drive and Irix (6.5.11) sees the drive but it sees it in 7 parts (1,1 - 1,2 - 1,3 - 1,4