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Second Hard Drive Installation Issue
Hi, I'm trying to install a second hard drive in my system...running Win2000 w/SP2. Motherboard is an Asus CUSL2. The drive is a Maxtor ATA/100 20 GB drive. I did a low-level format using Maxtor's Powermax utility, hoping to wipe out any issues, but yet again...1.96GB. Anyone ever seen this before?

Hard Drive issues downgrading from 2000 to 98?
After they went through all the details of formatting the new PC drive, they plugged in the supposedly new Mac hard drive, turned on the Mac, and the new hard drive already appeared on the Mac desktop. The "new" Mac drive even had its own name "Second Hard Disk." My point is they did not even bother to demonstrate

More Gnome 2.16/HAL issues
Gerry Cornell g...@tenretnitb.com microsoft public windowsxp perform_maintain Glen Where is it that you cannot see the second hard drive? I'm working my way through issues that this has caused. The one I'm stuck on now is that I have a 2nd hard drive with 3 partitions on it (and data I don't want to lose).

Hard Drive change to another 'puter
Mow Green mowgr...@earthstink.not microsoft public windowsupdate Robert, Since this news group is for Windows Update issues, it would be best if you posted this in the It is my secondary drive. My computer shows the hard drive but windows dosen't. It has a fat32 partition but it is not assigned a drive letter.

Adding a second hard drive
I have two separate hard drives, one is a 17GB, and the other is a 4GB slaved to the first one. In order to back up all my data, I put everything I needed on the smaller drive and Connect the drive as primary slave or put it on the secondary EIDE cable. Use FDISK to set the primary partition NOT active.

SATA - PATA Hard drive issues
I want to add another hard drive, say a 9 gig one, and reorganize things so that C is 4 or 5 gigs. But this is as mission-critical a server as they get, albeit for a small company. So if there is an easier way, I'll take it. Can I add a second hard drive, configure it as F or something, and simply tell Exchange to

Exchange 5.0 issues
My second hard drive was permanently mounted in the case, for use as a data drive that all the removable drives could share. And you dont have to do it like that. I'm wondering if I should raise the priority of switching to SATA drives, in light of the configuration issues I'm facing? Sure.

Backup issues raised by Melvin Bilik and others .....
This is likely if the second hard drive is much larger than the primary drive, and if it was a more recent addition. The drive overlay software overcomes a When i formatted the hard drive though, it deleted the partition that accessed the secondary drive (ie it is a seperate slave HDD). My question is this.

Hard drive issues on a P133
When you install a second hard drive over 8 gigs, it will run in DOS mode. There is no fix for that except to upgrade to Windows 98version 2. Version 2 is worth the $20US My first thought was that the Gina had issues, but after pulling the new drive and putting everything back on the Maxtor, the Gina was fine.

Formatting second hard drive
Now, some of them have taken me days to install because of incompatiblilty issues. I hate to go thru all that again, if I had to reinstall XP. The first thing you should do is buy a second hard drive, install it and get it running, copy all your data across to it, you may if you wish copy your program files

Reinstalling WinMe on C:\ if W2k already installed?
Making two partitions on drive C. Then on a second hard drive (since I have two hard drives), a partition for only the swap file and also temporary swap/working space that some programs use Your thinking is good as far as FAT partitions are concerned, but NTFS can deal with a lot more of these issues than FAT.

More Gnome 2.16/HAL issues
It helps understading your issues. In your PC configuration (when you prepeare the target drive as a second disk in development PC), you will need to: I can't add a second hard drive on my main PC, but I was "provided" a back-up system (a pentium II with a hard drive just barely large enough to contain the

Dell Dimension 2300 - second hard drive issues
Justin Gruenberg jus...@ice.kewlio.net lucky freebsd questions I've been having a bit of an issue with my 120gb Maxtor hard drive under FreeBSD. I was advised on IRC to try switching the drive from its position at primary slave, to somewhere else. I changed it to secondary slave, and had the same results.

RE-INSTALLING XP How do you do it without re-activating?
Polar sme...@mindspring.com soc senior issues On Sat, 18 Nov 2000 09:30:45 -0800, Dick Brewster <seebe...@mindspring.com> wrote: In article One disadvantage to using a second hard drive for backup is that it is subject to virus attacks. It's not a very secure means of backup. If you keep the hard drive in your

Triple boot with NT in second drive
On a related issue I am about to change the hard drive that has LILO on it, it is the one with Windows 98 on, my Linux OS is on a second hard drive. Any suggestions on how I should do this? Presumably I can copy LILO onto a floppy and then after putting a new hard drive in and installing Win98 I can reinstate LILO

ongoing boot loader issues
o Disk drive manufacturers provide software that works around some of these issues - but raise compatibility issues. o There are boards that extend the BIOS For example, adding a new second hard drive along with a BIOS extender board seems to work OK and not perturb the first hard drive's installation.

how to delete win386.swp?
Have installed a second hard drive. Linux sees it, but it isn't formatted yet. When I try to format it (using Druid) it says it can't find the second hard drive. The bios sees the hard drive correctly. First HD is Quantum Fireball 1.7 gig. Second HD is a Seagate 1.2 gig. Any ideas for this newbie? TIA.

NT Disk Administrator shows 2 identical drives as different sizes?
My second hard drive is a Maxtor Diamond Max 7.0gb Eide. It's the primary slave. I first installed it on my old system, which is where this problem began. The only software related issues that comes to mind is if you're using the wrong HD drivers for your setup, or if your BIOS HD parameters are wrong.

Added and then removed second hard drive
Installation of second hard drive, the SATA 250 went well. The BIOS picked up both (after I formatted the new drive) and I was successful in installing Windows XP Home Edition" /fastdetect /NoExecute=OptIn multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition" /fastdetect Issues that I

B&W Rev1 G3 w/Sonnet controller card: Bootable hard drive ...
HD Tach testing can eliminate some hardware-related stuff when debugging hard drive issues, but Sandra gives more of a "black box" type of test. Everything needs to be working properly to get the best results from Sandra. So, I still think that I have some sort of problem that needs to be fixed.