My Harddrive will be assimilated

[mrblonde]

I have a formatted Western Digital AC23200 Harddrive I would like to make a slave. I have a PC with the same model of HD. The slave has a partition of a C: and D: drive. I would like to know how to get rid of the D: drive; and how to install it on the other PC. It has Win98. I am very new to this so I would apperciate any simplistic advice. I know what the jumpers should be set at but am not sure where to go from there. I'm sure I am missing info you will need so please ask. Thanks for the help!!!

Mat

 

[Comtech]

Set the jumpers to SLAVE.
Put the HD in the computer as slave to your other HD.
If you currently have your CD-ROM there, get another cable, and install the HD as "Secondary Master", that is, jumper it to master, and put in on the second cable.
Restart the computer, and go into BIOS setup.
Detect all HD's.
Save and restart in DOS (hold the CTRL key down while booting, and choose "Command prompt only" from the menu.
At the C: prompt type: fdisk
In fdisk, select option 5 to change to the second HD.
Follow the menu in fdisk, to remove all partitions, starting with the logical and extended partitions, then exit fdisk.
Start fdisk again, option 5 to change to the second HD.
Say "Yes" to extended disk support.
Create a new primary partition.
Exit fdisk.
Format the new partition.
Done, restart.
BE CAREFUL you don't fdisk your current drive, or format the wrong drive!!!!! You'll lose everything if you do that. Cheers,
Jim

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