Adding a hard drive

[Gavin]

Hi there,


Im going to attempt to add another HDD to my system. I need help on figuring out this:

When ive installed the HDD i would like to keep my old HDD for my OS and use my new one for PROGRAMS ect (so if windows 98se messes up i can just format my old hdd and not lose any settings/programs) .

It's proberbly really simple but i can't seem to get my head around how to do this. Is it as simple as just cut n pasting my "my programs" folder onto my new harddrive??.. If i do it this way will i still be able to access my programs from the start menu ??..

So again basically all i would like to do is use my current HDD for my OS and use my new HDD for programs .. Also how do i know what harddrive is compatible with my mainboard? (ms-6183)..

thnx guys im hoping you can put my mind at rest here.

[Dodge]

Hi Gavin. All programs have to be installed into windows. So if you put them on another hard drive that wont help you incase you lose Windows. What it will do is have everything you want on that drive so if something happens you wont have to redownload anything. Just reinstall it.

You can use a program like Ghost to make an Image of your C: drive. Then if you have to format and reinstall windows, you can then use Ghost to restore you system to what you have now. All settings, games etc will be there. You just have to make sure you do regular Backups....

Nortons Ghost (http://http://www.nextag.com/serv/main/buyer/ProductM.jsp?nxtg=42a23c_345BCAACE5BFB111&kw=Symantec_Norton_Ghost_2002&ptitle=2254225&pdir=0&click=n&node=&core=&page=1&lgnode=&lgsearch=nortons_ghost)

[eagle]

As was previouly stated if you loose windows , it does not matter where you have your programs installed. If you installed another hard drive and it became your d drive. You could save programs to that drive, as it would create a program drive folder for that drive. But any programs you save to that drive would not be present in your startup menu. You would have to go to the drive that you saved those programs and open them individually via of the program folder in that drive. Your start up menu is for seeing what programs you have installed on your c drive. I use my second hard drive for storage. Any items that I download to my documents folder or anyother folders, I go to windows explorer and use the drag and drop option to save those items to my d drive, which helps to save space for my c drive. Hope this helps in your understanding.