Alrighty... this may be in the wrong forum, but I'll never know if I don't write it...
I have a 60gb Hard drive. I installed Win2k onto a 8gb (setup-created) partion NTFS formated. Once in windows I 'upgraded' the drive to a dynamic disk and created a ?Simple? volume that was roughly 51 or so gb in size. I then have proceeded to fill this drive up about 75% with various files and other items that I would not want to have to go replace. (MP3's, movies, games...etc)
Then my Motherboard Crapped out on my (due to me going a little to high on the FSB), and also took the CPU (1.4 T-bird) with it. It was a KG7-Raid board. I'm buying a KR7A-Raid to replace the board, and a XP 1600+ to replace the CPU.
How can I make sure I don't lose my data on the other partition? Will I be able to just plop in the new MB and CPU and run with it... or will I need a re-install of WIN2k? And if I do need a new install, how do I keep my old secondary partion.
Last time I re-installed Win2k - same setup (8gb system partition, 50gb storage partition) - I re-formatted the old 8gb partition in setup and when I got into windows and went to Disk Management, it just say my old 50gb partition as 'unused' (and I lost everything on it!)... I was thinking that if I didn't touch it, it would have still been there... but it wasn't. I don't want this to happen again. Should I do a 'repair' install? Or install into the same partition w/o reformating?
ideas... suggestion?
JOE
I have a 60gb Hard drive. I installed Win2k onto a 8gb (setup-created) partion NTFS formated. Once in windows I 'upgraded' the drive to a dynamic disk and created a ?Simple? volume that was roughly 51 or so gb in size. I then have proceeded to fill this drive up about 75% with various files and other items that I would not want to have to go replace. (MP3's, movies, games...etc)
Then my Motherboard Crapped out on my (due to me going a little to high on the FSB), and also took the CPU (1.4 T-bird) with it. It was a KG7-Raid board. I'm buying a KR7A-Raid to replace the board, and a XP 1600+ to replace the CPU.
How can I make sure I don't lose my data on the other partition? Will I be able to just plop in the new MB and CPU and run with it... or will I need a re-install of WIN2k? And if I do need a new install, how do I keep my old secondary partion.
Last time I re-installed Win2k - same setup (8gb system partition, 50gb storage partition) - I re-formatted the old 8gb partition in setup and when I got into windows and went to Disk Management, it just say my old 50gb partition as 'unused' (and I lost everything on it!)... I was thinking that if I didn't touch it, it would have still been there... but it wasn't. I don't want this to happen again. Should I do a 'repair' install? Or install into the same partition w/o reformating?
ideas... suggestion?
JOE
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