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Two hard drives with XP

Nov 28, 2004 12:37AM PST

Hi, I recently got my pc worked on and had to end up reinstalling Win Xp. However I have two hard drives and I installed xp on both of them. Will this hurt my performance? should i make one a slave drive? or does having xp on both of them not affect performance?

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Re: Two hard drives with XP
Nov 28, 2004 2:12AM PST
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Re: Two hard drives with XP
Nov 28, 2004 9:46PM PST

fockewulf8,

The easiest way to solve this is to boot your system to C drive. Go to Computer Management (Control Panel -> Administrative Tools) -> Disk Management.

Right click second drive and remove partition.

Then create an extended partition -> logical partition -> format to NTFS. And as Wayne said use this drive for you files.

See
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=309000

Bill
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Re: Two hard drives with XP
Nov 28, 2004 11:16PM PST

I have a somewhat related problem. When I did a reinstall of my XP Pro OS, I somehow managed to change the C drive. I now have a C drive with only 31.3MB and my D drive has the 60GB. I didn't worry about it until I started running AVG7 scans. After a scan, AVG puts a DAT file, AVG7QT, ll,933Kb into C Drive and now I get a warning that my C drive is too low. As per your comments, could I do the disk management thing and delete the C drive. Althought I have nothing in it, it still says that there is 18.6MB of used space, for what I don't know. Outside of moving this dat file to the D drive every time, the computer is working fine. I don't want to mess anything up. Thanks for any advice you can provide. Eddie