2nd HD

Question

Hi I just put in a new 160g HD in my E510. I want to make the old HD a back up. I installed it into the lower bay and hooked the cables to it. It does not show up when i turn on the Comp. They are Sata drives. Any thoughts. Thanks

osprey4 · Answer

If you adding this drive as a second drive, simply use disk management to partition and format it. If you want to install the oS onto the new drive, the best approach is to remove the other drive, install XP, then put the other drive back in. Do you know the trick for installing your RAID drivers before you start the XP installation process?

chasbox · Answer

osprey4   Thanks i found my problem. I had to go into Bios and enable the second drive. I'm going to partition and format. It has Vista on it plus other programs etc. I will take what i need and then format. Thanks

osprey4 · Answer

Oh, that. :)

Wayne P · Answer

chasbox   Like you I just installed an additional HD.  When I ran the manafactures software to configure the drive, it would not configure as a boot drive without copying all the files on the current boot drive to the new drive.  That's not what I want.  I want to install Win XP on the clean new drive and then make it my 'C' drive.  I would then re-format the old drive and use it for data only. My question is how did you configure the new drive as a boot drive?

osprey4 · Answer

Wayne:   Take the old drive out and connect the new one as primary. Install, then plug the old drive back in.

chasbox · Answer

Wayne:   Like he said:smileywink:

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