Hard Drive Format Question

[dundevil]

I have HD1, a 40 Meg, partitioned to C:=30 M and D:=10 M

There also is HD 2 a 12 M that I was using as a backup as E:


System got corrupted so that the 12M HD 2 ended up as C:

I unplugged power from the HD2 12M and reformated and repartioned HD1 as C: =30 M and D: = 10 M. I installed XP and all is working fine.

Questions:

1. How can I put the 12M HD2 back into service to use as backup?

2. What will happen when I plug the HD2 power cord back in.
(HD2 still has Win 98 SE on it)?

3. Will I have to make any changes in the OS to re-designate the drive letters?

I have ASUS K7M Mobo, Athlon 550Mhz, 512 MB memory

Dundevil

 

[GAZZA]

I hope we are talking GIGs and not MBs your hard drives consist of ? 😀

What was your OS setup , did you have wn98 on initially and then dual booted with XP ?
If XP was on your C or D partition then you have killed the dual boot file for Win98 when you Repartitioned your drives .

1. How can I put the 12M HD2 back into service to use as backup?
2. What will happen when I plug the HD2 power cord back in.
(HD2 still has Win 98 SE on it)?

Do you want to keep Win98 on that partition ?
If not then use XP to repartition it and then create a extended partition rather than a primary one.


When you partitioned your first drive did you set your C🙁30gig) or D🙁10gig)drive as active partition ?

Because that will determine what your second drive will end up as regarding Drive letter if you decide to keep the 12gig drive as it is.

 

[dundevil]

You are correct. I meant Gigs for the HDs.

The 40 Gig has only XP and is partitioned C:=30 and D:=10.
It boots up with C: as the active drive.

I do NOT want a dual boot. XP all the way.


The unplugged 12Gig has Win98SE. I want to wipe it clean so that I can use it as a backup for C:

Question: What will happen when I connect the power cord to the (presently dead) 12Gig ?

Should I plug in first and then boot or plug in while the computer is running on XP.

Do I have to reset the BIOD in any way?

TIA

Dundevil

 

[DaiShan]

First off what do you mean "presently dead 12 gig"? by dead do you mean it doesn't work? Ok if I understand correctly you want to wipe the 12 gig clean and plug it in to store extra files on? What I would do is set the 12 gig drives jumpers to slave, and hook it up to the primary ide channel (the same one as your other hdd) this will make it primary slave, you MUST have the computer off when you do this, hook up the power and the ribbon cable, and boot up, in windows you need to set the drive as active (I'm not too up on xp right now, a search here on the forums should do the trick) then right click on the drive in explorer and say format, this should acheive what you are trying to do.