Adding a new disk with active partition on it (OS is installed)

[Guest adi]

I have installed a new large disk in my system and reinstalled OS.

 

Now i want to add my old disk to system in one of the slots available( this

disk has os on its primary partition with drive letter as C:\) and its active

bits are not wiped.

 

My qustion is if i add this disk ,although my system will boot from new

disk but after booting and rescaning in disk MMC it will recognise other

disk( old one) with active partion as well , then how it well assign the

drive letter or resolve the conflict.

 

Any Idea suggestion, experince are most welcomed

[Guest Alias]

Re: Adding a new disk with active partition on it (OS is installed)

 

adi wrote:

> I have installed a new large disk in my system and reinstalled OS.

>

> Now i want to add my old disk to system in one of the slots available( this

> disk has os on its primary partition with drive letter as C:\) and its active

> bits are not wiped.

>

> My qustion is if i add this disk ,although my system will boot from new

> disk but after booting and rescaning in disk MMC it will recognise other

> disk( old one) with active partion as well , then how it well assign the

> drive letter or resolve the conflict.

>

> Any Idea suggestion, experince are most welcomed

 

Change the jumpers on the old disk to Slave, plug it in to the slave

connection on the ribbon along with to the power supply and you're ready

to go. XP will automatically assign letters for the partitions on that

drive, including what used to be the C drive.

 

Alias

[Guest Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Re: Adding a new disk with active partition on it (OS is installed)

 

 

"adi" <adi@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

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>I have installed a new large disk in my system and reinstalled OS.

>

> Now i want to add my old disk to system in one of the slots available(

> this

> disk has os on its primary partition with drive letter as C:\) and its

> active

> bits are not wiped.

>

> My qustion is if i add this disk ,although my system will boot from new

> disk but after booting and rescaning in disk MMC it will recognise other

> disk( old one) with active partion as well , then how it well assign the

> drive letter or resolve the conflict.

>

> Any Idea suggestion, experince are most welcomed

 

There is no conflict. Active partitions are only relevant for the

primary master disk, which your old is obviously not. Drive

letters will be assigned from the first free letter upwards.

[Guest Ed Mc]

Re: Adding a new disk with active partition on it (OS is installed)

 

Alias wrote:

> adi wrote:

>> I have installed a new large disk in my system and reinstalled OS.

>>

>> Now i want to add my old disk to system in one of the slots available(

>> this disk has os on its primary partition with drive letter as C:\)

>> and its active bits are not wiped.

>>

>> My qustion is if i add this disk ,although my system will boot from

>> new disk but after booting and rescaning in disk MMC it will

>> recognise other disk( old one) with active partion as well , then how

>> it well assign the drive letter or resolve the conflict.

>>

>> Any Idea suggestion, experince are most welcomed

>

> Change the jumpers on the old disk to Slave, plug it in to the slave

> connection on the ribbon along with to the power supply and you're ready

> to go. XP will automatically assign letters for the partitions on that

> drive, including what used to be the C drive.

>

> Alias

If drive letters change, when icons are clicked the associated

programs might not work etc. Does XP automatically adjust for this, or

is a drivemapper program (like PowerQuest) needed?

 

--

Semper Fi

[Guest Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Re: Adding a new disk with active partition on it (OS is installed)

 

 

"Ed Mc" <namvtn@comcast.invalid> wrote in message

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> Alias wrote:

>> adi wrote:

>>> I have installed a new large disk in my system and reinstalled OS.

>>>

>>> Now i want to add my old disk to system in one of the slots available(

>>> this disk has os on its primary partition with drive letter as C:\) and

>>> its active bits are not wiped.

>>>

>>> My qustion is if i add this disk ,although my system will boot from new

>>> disk but after booting and rescaning in disk MMC it will recognise

>>> other disk( old one) with active partion as well , then how it well

>>> assign the drive letter or resolve the conflict.

>>>

>>> Any Idea suggestion, experince are most welcomed

>>

>> Change the jumpers on the old disk to Slave, plug it in to the slave

>> connection on the ribbon along with to the power supply and you're ready

>> to go. XP will automatically assign letters for the partitions on that

>> drive, including what used to be the C drive.

>>

>> Alias

> If drive letters change, when icons are clicked the associated programs

> might not work etc. Does XP automatically adjust for this, or is a

> drivemapper program (like PowerQuest) needed?

>

> --

> Semper Fi

 

No, the programs on the old disk won't work, and tools such as

Drive Mapper are unlikely to work. On the other hand I don't

think that the OP wanted his programs from the old disk to work.

He's probably after the data.