hello,
My computer isn't allowing me to upgrade to a service pack so I'm going to reinstall (wanted to do this anyway)
I have 2 200GB hard drives that are limited to 127GB
Drive 1 has 1 partition, has the OS, and uses all 127GB
Drive 2 has 4 partitions 1.Games
2.Media
3.Music
4.unused space
I want to install winXP to a partition on HD2 and keep all my data
1. So i plan to move the data in games to another partition or to HD#1
2. set HD2(dataHD) to Master via cable select and/or jumpers
3. Install XP to the games partition and if necessary enable 48bit LBA (large hard disk support )and set as active using Norton's Gdisk(partitioning utility)
4. connect other hard drive as slave and set as non active partition if it has to have it that way
5. enable 48bit if not automatic on slave drive
Anyone foresee any problems or think of a better way to do this
I'm not completely sure if every hard drive needs to have an active partition
I've done something like this before. I took a hard drive with 1 partition and an OS installed and simply made it a slave drive
then added it to a computer and kept all the data intact
OR (because I want to keep the HD1 as the boot/main drive)
could I
1. use GDisk to create a partition after the 127GB partition
2. set the new partition as active
3. install XP on the new parition
and go from there
My computer isn't allowing me to upgrade to a service pack so I'm going to reinstall (wanted to do this anyway)
I have 2 200GB hard drives that are limited to 127GB
Drive 1 has 1 partition, has the OS, and uses all 127GB
Drive 2 has 4 partitions 1.Games
2.Media
3.Music
4.unused space
I want to install winXP to a partition on HD2 and keep all my data
1. So i plan to move the data in games to another partition or to HD#1
2. set HD2(dataHD) to Master via cable select and/or jumpers
3. Install XP to the games partition and if necessary enable 48bit LBA (large hard disk support )and set as active using Norton's Gdisk(partitioning utility)
4. connect other hard drive as slave and set as non active partition if it has to have it that way
5. enable 48bit if not automatic on slave drive
Anyone foresee any problems or think of a better way to do this
I'm not completely sure if every hard drive needs to have an active partition
I've done something like this before. I took a hard drive with 1 partition and an OS installed and simply made it a slave drive
then added it to a computer and kept all the data intact
OR (because I want to keep the HD1 as the boot/main drive)
could I
1. use GDisk to create a partition after the 127GB partition
2. set the new partition as active
3. install XP on the new parition
and go from there
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