Format of second HDD...

[Guest DD]

I have recently installed a second HDD and made it the boot disc. Having

transferred all the information I need from the old HDD, can I format

the old drive? After formatting the drive do I need to do anything else

before I will be able to access it and use it for storage?

 

DD (Win XP Home)

[Guest John John (MVP)]

Re: Format of second HDD...

 

How did you make this second HDD the boot disk? A simple test that

should provide an answer to your question would be to pull the power

connection on the drive then try to boot and use your computer. If the

computer boots and runs fine with the drive unplugged then you know that

it is safe to format the drive, you can just use the built-in Windows

Disk Management tool to format the drive.

 

John

 

DD wrote:

> I have recently installed a second HDD and made it the boot disc. Having

> transferred all the information I need from the old HDD, can I format

> the old drive? After formatting the drive do I need to do anything else

> before I will be able to access it and use it for storage?

>

> DD (Win XP Home)

[Guest MAP]

RE: Format of second HDD...

 

DD, before you format your old HD I would leave it alone for about say a

month just incase the new HD fails,after a month the new drive should be

ok,if eletronics are going to fail (due to a defect) they will do it fairly

soon.

--

Mike Pawlak

 

 

"DD" wrote:

> I have recently installed a second HDD and made it the boot disc. Having

> transferred all the information I need from the old HDD, can I format

> the old drive? After formatting the drive do I need to do anything else

> before I will be able to access it and use it for storage?

>

> DD (Win XP Home)

>