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I want to install XP home on a now secondary drive.

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Go Go Gadget

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Right now I have two drives in my dell. The first drive has the dell version of windows on it and so for my new machine, I will be using my secondary harddrive, which as of now has bout 150 gigs of TV shows on it. (250 gig drive)

Will it be possible to install windows on it without erasing or writing over any of these files? Does windows need a certain sector of the drive to be free?

Would defragging the HD before I installed windows on it be a good idea, or might it move the files around so windows when installing writes over them?
 
Windows will install and you shouldn't lose any data. I have done it many times without data loss as Windows loads itself in it's own folder.
 
You should be able to install on an existing partition. If you're going to defrag, I would do it after the Windows install, but defragging will have no impact over whether your files are overwritten.
 
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