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pagefile on first partion of 2nd drive

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I have a computer that has a small hd, and only 256 ram. I use it only for burning cd's and Dvd's, but I used to use it for everything, so it is filled up with junk and started to crash on me.

I bought a larger HD, and I want to load windows on the new hard drive. Then copy over to the new hard drive the info I want to keep, and reformat and repartition the new hard drive.

I would like to partition the old HD into 2, with one section being used as a partion only for the swap file. I want that partition to be the first partition.

Currently, Windows is working on the old drive, the new drive is installed and recognized by the bios, but not formatted.

Just trying to get the order of what I need to do figured out.

If I boot from the WinXp disk, and let it format and install itself onto the new HD, I can then copy over info to the new HD.

I can then manually format the old HD. How do you make a partition the first partition?

I would then change the swap file location to the new partition.

Can that partition be hidden?

Currently, the old HD is drive C, and D and E are the optic drives. How do I make it so the new HD will be drive C, the unhidden partion be drive D, the optics can be drive E and F, and can I make the swap drive hidden or another letter, like S?

Would it be easier to change letters before installing new OS and HD?

Any help or comments on any issues above would be appreciated.
 
1- Disconnect the old drive from the motherboard.

2- Connect the new drive to the motherboard.

3- Enter the BIOS and make sure that the new drive is on the boot list.

4- Install XP on the new drive, which is the only drive connected. It will become drive C.

5- After XP installation is complete, connect the old drive to the motherboard. If the hard drives are PATA and you only have one free PATA connector available on the motherboard, connect the old drive as slave. Master, I believe is the drive you connect to the end of the cable. Set the jumpers on the drives to cable select.

6- Enter the BIOS and make sure that the new drive has priority over the old drive in the boot list.

7- The computer should now boot to the new installation on the new drive and recognize the old drive. It will automatically give the old drive a drive letter other than C, which you can change if you want to anything available other than A, B or C using disk management (see 8).
You will be able to copy anything you need from the old drive.
You may need to take ownership. We can talk about that when you get to this stage.

8- If you have copied everything you need from the old drive, enter XP disk management (right click "My Computer" and click on "Manage". Select "Disk Management" from the left pane) and delete the partition from the old drive.
Create a new partition on the old drive the size you want as your first partition. Format it.
Create a second partition. Format it.
You can choose any available drive letter (other than A, B or C) for either of the two using disk management.

9- Enter control panel and place a pagefile on the first partition on the second drive. The partition containing your pagefile cannot be hidden.


The drive letters are assigned by the OS. You cannot change drive letters before installing the OS.
 
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