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I believe, with Me, the FIRST partition on the SECOND drive will be D:
Tom "Paul Knudsen" wrote in message ... With PM you can make the partitions on the new drive to be anything you want. I made mine P, Q, R, and S, just for the hellofit. On Wed, 21 Jan 2004 14:32:04 GMT, (Phred) wrote: G'day mates, I'm looking for a simple recipe to ensure success when trying to install a second HDD on a Dell Dimension 4100 under Windows ME (or even just mention of "gotchas" to avoid would be helpful . Current 20GB drive is partitioned C, D, E, F using PM 6.0 I want to install a 2nd HDD (WD 120GB) either as slave on the same cable, or on the second cable as master or slave (see below). I also have a CDRW drive (as G), and will be looking to install a combo DVD/CDRW *or* a DVD writer "soon". So provision needs to be made for both these optical drives too. For compatibility with another ("managed") system, I need to keep the same HDD partitions, but would see C and D as being on the present master HDD with E and F on the new one, if this is possible. An alternative that would be nearly as convenient would be to have C and F on the present drive with D and E on the new one. In fact, any combination that left C on the present master (no doubt the only possibility anyway!) and E plus another partition on the other drive, would be acceptable (though that may mean some playing around with existing batch files if the CDRW drive designation is changed, and I would prefer not to have to do that -- but it could be done.) There is also the issue of the best allocation of the HDDs and the optical drive(s) to the cables. I've seen this recommended and argued both ways: (1) keep the HDDs separate from the CDs so that HDD activity is not so likely to interfere during CD writing; and (2) put the CDs on separate cables so direct copy will work better. The main uses would be: 1. Existing drive stays as the system/applications drive (C), and may contain a second partition (D or F) that would serve as a data backup area. 2. New drive would be the main working drive (E) but would also contain a partition to hold maybe 2 or 3 "Ghosts" of the system drive (probably at least a vanilla system installation and a second one with the main application software freshly installed too). [Or maybe I don't really need a partition for that as the "Ghosts" are basically just files aren't they?] 3. The CDRW would mostly be used for backups and other copies of data from E, and also for backup copies of program CDs (and that may involve direct CD to CD copies in future when I get the second optical drive). It would usually only need to interact with C during program installations. 4. A temporary consideration is the best (i.e. most convenient) way of getting nearly 8GB of data off the present E partition onto the new drive and into the new "E". I can think of possibilities with PM, but it may come down to CD shuffling in the end. :-( Hints, guidance, recommendations, links most welcome. Thank you for listening. Cheers, Phred. -- Get on the NRA Blacklist: http://www.NRAblacklist.com |
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You might be right. I dumped the DOS-based OS's a while ago.
On Sun, 15 Feb 2004 21:50:33 -0500, "Tom Scales" wrote: I believe, with Me, the FIRST partition on the SECOND drive will be D: -- Get on the NRA Blacklist: http://www.NRAblacklist.com |
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On Sun, 15 Feb 2004 21:50:33 -0500, in alt.sys.pc-clone.dell, "Tom Scales" wrote: I believe, with Me, the FIRST partition on the SECOND drive will be D: Depends on the type of partitions created: primary partitions are assigned drive letters before logical drives in secondary partitions. Using the default drive letter assignments on my computer, drive D: is the second partition on my first hard drive, because I only created a single primary partition (my C: drive); all the others are logical drives in extended partitions. By also creating a primary partition on my second hard drive, I could have had my computer default to drive D: on the second drive and drive E: on the first drive. Newer versions of Windows allow very flexible drive letter assignments, but (as far as I know) the default letter assignment scheme is still the same as it was under MS-DOS. -- Nick |
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