current rig:
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OS: XP Pro + Redhat 7.2
CPU: Athlon 1.2G
MB: Epox 8k7a
MEM: 512M Crucial pc2100
HD1(master): WD 60g 5400rpm w/ XP on it
HD2(slave): Maxtor 20g 7200 w/ redhat
Vid: GF3 Ti200
Lite-on 24x CD-RW, toshiba 16x dvd...
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just got a Dell/WD 120G, 8M cache HD. i'm thinking to set it as master and put xp pro on it, then install redhat on the 60g WD. it also could be a backup drive.
Questions:
1. after i set the 120g HD as master, old 60g as slave, can i install XP directly? (don't wanna reformat the old 60g coz there'r still a lot of stuffs on it.) some guys said the system will crash since there r two bootable active partitions??
2. or can i use Ghost's disk to disk function to copy the whole thing on the 60g WD to the new 120g hd?
3. what's the best partition set up on the 120g hd? sys: 20G, work: 10G, data 90g??
BTW, a werid thing is, occassinally the BIOS won't recognize the 20G Maxtor HD or only recongnize part of it (5.1G)? what's the problem?
any suggestions will be highly appreciated!!!!!
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OS: XP Pro + Redhat 7.2
CPU: Athlon 1.2G
MB: Epox 8k7a
MEM: 512M Crucial pc2100
HD1(master): WD 60g 5400rpm w/ XP on it
HD2(slave): Maxtor 20g 7200 w/ redhat
Vid: GF3 Ti200
Lite-on 24x CD-RW, toshiba 16x dvd...
********************************
just got a Dell/WD 120G, 8M cache HD. i'm thinking to set it as master and put xp pro on it, then install redhat on the 60g WD. it also could be a backup drive.
Questions:
1. after i set the 120g HD as master, old 60g as slave, can i install XP directly? (don't wanna reformat the old 60g coz there'r still a lot of stuffs on it.) some guys said the system will crash since there r two bootable active partitions??
2. or can i use Ghost's disk to disk function to copy the whole thing on the 60g WD to the new 120g hd?
3. what's the best partition set up on the 120g hd? sys: 20G, work: 10G, data 90g??
BTW, a werid thing is, occassinally the BIOS won't recognize the 20G Maxtor HD or only recongnize part of it (5.1G)? what's the problem?
any suggestions will be highly appreciated!!!!!
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