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I guess it's about time I buy a bigger HD

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Shaum

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I recently got satellite internet and my 60gb hard drive is filling up fast. I'll probably buy a 160gb seagate I think that was the brand I saw recommended. I'll keep my OS on my 60gb and just keep all the stuff I download on the 160gb. My question is what do I have to do to make this work? Do I need to partition the drive, install XP on it? Never done this before any help would be nice. Thanks.
 
set the jumpers as a slave drive, and configure it in the bios (sometimes you dont even have to do that). you dont need to instal windows XP on it.
 
Originally posted by: Shaum
I recently got satellite internet and my 60gb hard drive is filling up fast. I'll probably buy a 160gb seagate I think that was the brand I saw recommended. I'll keep my OS on my 60gb and just keep all the stuff I download on the 160gb. My question is what do I have to do to make this work? Do I need to partition the drive, install XP on it? Never done this before any help would be nice. Thanks.
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This tutorial from TechTV might help. Just make sure you follow the instructions for WIN/XP for the partitioning and formating. It is for an IDE hard drive, not a SATA, but I assume that your machine is more than a couple of years old and will be IDE only.

Another caution, you have to have 48bit LBA enabled in your BIOS, and have at least Service Pack 1 (SP1) installed for Win/XP or your 160GB drive will be limited to 137GB.
 
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