Hard Drive Question

[Husker Fan]

Ok, im planning on reformatting my PC because it is becoming sluggish. Anyway, I bought a WD 160GB IDE drive and copied the contents of my boot drive (120GB SATA) onto it. Remembering that when I first put the WD drive in, I had to format and partition it to show up in Windows. Since I already have partitioned and formatted, is it a good bet it will show up in Windows so I can copy my files back onto my newly formatted drive?

So my question is, when I reformat my Boot Drive, will my WD (backup) drive show up in My Computer at the first boot in Windows?

 

[Husker Fan]

Can someone help me out?

 

[KGB]

Husk,

Before you format your boot drive, boot from it and see if you can read the contents of your IDE drive.

BTW... Welcome to the Forums.

 

[Husker Fan]

What do you mean boot from it? Like go into Windows?

Well, it is recognized now, but for it to be recognized (When I first put it in) I had to use the WD Disc to partition and format it.

 

[Husker Fan]

I want to get this done by tonight... Please help

 

[Husker Fan]

PLEASE HELP!!!

 

[tynopik]

when you format your boot drive, you will have no operating system installed

are you prepared to reinstall your OS staring from boot floppies/cds?

however, yes, once you get an operating system installed, it shouldn't have any trouble reading the drive you copied stuff to earlier

 

[Husker Fan]

So once I reformat my Main Drive {C:} and put Windows on, my 2nd HD will show up?

 

[Husker Fan]

Anyone?

 

[baumerz]

If it's a seperate drive it should show when you boot-up. If it's a seperate partition you should see it after you install windows.

Install windows and go from there

 

[tynopik]

if you were able to access it before, there's no reason you shouldn't be able to access it again