Secondary Harddrive Question?
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You cannot have windows 98 recognise a xp drive if the xp drive is formatted as NTFS file system, and its questionable as to whether converting the xp drive to fat32 will even work, so your only hope is to use a computer with win xp or win 2000 pro to retrieve all your files, the drive you want to read must be jumpered as slave if you put it on the same IDE cable as the boot drive..barring that, you can use a knoppix or ubuntu live distro to burn all the files you need to cd's
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no need to change any jumper stting just  put the other hard disk in place of cd rom and it will work and if u want cd rom also then check the jumper setting of ur cd rom and remove the jumper frm cd rom and put it in same place of hard disk  it will b taken as secondary harddisk automatically slave..
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There are hardware adapters that you can plug two drives into, making them appear as one drive to the host computer.  If you are trying to fake-out a Netgear box that's probably what I'd try.  \n\nSome of the file-sharing appliances include a "backup" function that will duplicate your primary drive nightly to a secondary drive of the same size.  While not RAID 1, it would limit your risk of loss.\n\nThe CHEAPEST way to do this would be soft-RAID on your PC...but I doubt you'd like the performance.  A close second would be to stick any of the Promise-based IDE RAID controllers into your desktop and attach the drives to it.
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Your question doesn't have a simple answer; however, if you don't need two computers, the easiest thing to do would be to transplant the HD from the slower machine into the better one.  This way, you'll have both drives available in the same computer, with a minimum of muss 'n fuss :)
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check out the wesite below, you should be able to use either depending oon how many hdd you already have installed.
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False it is a primary storage device atleast for most computers. Secondary storage would be something like a CD-R or DVD-R
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Yes, but you probably need a second harddrive to copy the recovered files to.
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Is it one hard drive to two or two hard drives?\n\nI assume you meant "partition a hard drive to two"... Partitioning is a good idea especially when you have to reinstall an operating system. I usually partition the hard disk and keep my data in D: whereas I keep my OS and the program files in C:. This way, I can reinstall the OS without loosing my data.\n\nThe procedure depends on whether you have to preserve the data in the current drive or not. If you don't need to then you can download the Ranish Partition Manager and partition it refering to the help. With some effor you may be able to do it with FDISK also.\nRanish Partition Manager:\nhttp://www.ranish.com/part/\n\nIf you have to preserve the data currently on disk then it is very difficult. I have done it with Ranish Partition Manager but you need to be an expert. The best way may be to buy one of the popular partition tools. Those tools can partition, resize, move partitions without loosing data. These are my recommendations:\nPartition Magic: http://www.powerquest.com/home_homeoffice/products/system_performance/pm80/index.html\nAcronis disk director:\nhttp://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/products/diskdirector/partitioning.html\n7 tools partition manager:\nhttp://www.7tools.com/\nVCOM partition commander:\nhttp://www.v-com.com/product/Partition_Commander_Home.html
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external harddrive, or change out the old one to a larger one
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Please don't use partition magic. !!!\nThat is known to ruin your scenario.\n\nFirst of all, from my understandiing, you previously had 1 Harddrive and you partitioned it in 2 areas WHILE installing.\n\n- Okay, if you only have one harddrive in your pc, I recommend you to leave it that way, cause what if your computer doesn't work anymore(your windows/linux) messes up. You could always place your important files on the second harddrive and reformat the first hardrive if you ever need. That will reduce problems.\n\n- But assuming you still want to merge C and D, I recommend formatting both harddrives . Sorry mate, thats the only secure way. While reinstalling your operating system, you could have the option of making it partions (c and d or more) or leave it as one full hardrive (by deleting partition from d)\n\n- If you use partition magic, 3 out of 2 people fail. Partition Magic doesn't know pretty well how to retreat the harddrives, it will become slower. It is not simply saying to move the pointer of the 2nd hd to the 1st. They are completly different set of pointers. On the minimum case Partition Magic will work, but your taking risks.\n\nSo what do I recommend? Backup your files to somewhere, and restore them after your fresh install.\n\nOr you have two separate harddrives that you want to make into 1 big harddrive.\n- You need to use a Raid Controller to merge both harddrives into one big driver. Search for RAID5. And follow instructions there.
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All hard drives have the potential to die any day.  Reliability on a hard drive isn't really reliable.  The average hard drive, if treated with care, would last you 4-5 years, but now, most die within the first year because of larger programs and the many many viruses, worms, trojans, etc. out there.  I suggest that you also do another back up onto CD if the information is really important.  Most external hard drives have a 1 year warrenty if not 3, so if it were to die on you, you can call the manufacturer and get it replaced.\n\nI give you props for backing up your information on a second hard drive, most people don't do that and lose everything.  So to answer your question in brief, hard drives usually live for 4-5 years if taken care of.  If all you're doing is storing files on that hard drive, it'll last you pretty long.  But if you start installing drives and extracting potential virus prone documents onto there, then you'll experience some problems.  Hope this helped.
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external is better.because it can be used for other computers too.\nyou can use it as a large cooldisk.
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Well you can...\n\nEmail them 1 a day... 3 years later...\n\nPut them to an IPOD or USB Flash Drive type device - Best bet...\n\nOr if you can, open the work pc after work, take the harddrive out, and take it home, put in your pc as the slave, copy the files across, then take the HD back.\n\nYou can buy external harddrives but i'm betting you don't want this to cost money.
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I don't know how big your HD is, but this is how I do it.\n\nFirst... I save everything I want to keep EXTERNALLY.\n\nThen I re-partition the hard drive, using one partition for the OS (C:), one partition for the Applications, one partition for Data. (NOTE: Use "save as" rather than "save" to put data in folders on data partition.)\n\nThen I reload the OS and everything else I need, in the appropriate partitions. (Use "custom" load to change the prtition where you load Appplications)\n\nThen I make "backups" regularly, stored EXTERNALLY.  That way I can simply reload the OS when needed, and then use the "backup" program to "restore from backup", overwriting the OS or other applications and/or files as needed, (like after a crash!!)\n\nOn systems that permit it, a "Recovery" or "Restore" disc set, or restore point, should be made IMMEDIATELY after loading is complete, so you can have a "base" point to start from.  \nI also make a "manual" restore point before loading any new application or making any critical system changes, just in case of problems.
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You shouldn't have to....\nFirst you have to determine if it a master or slave drive.\nIf the IDE cable is connected to both the cd and your harddrive, the HD would be the master and the cd the slave. Check the jumper pin on the back of the cd and make sure it is on the appropriate pins. If the cd is on a seperate IDE cable it could be the secondary master, again check the pins for Master or Slave. Check that the cd drive is connected to power. Lastly, when booting the computer, you have to go into your BIOS settings to enable the drive and then save your settings. Should work fine after that.\nOh yeah, one more thing......the IDE cable has a red stripe on one side.....that red stripe should be on the side closest to the power connection.
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i am a hardware tech.\nit is very simple.just follow these steps.\ni am assuming this is a  second hard drive.\n1)connect it to the computer.\n2)turn it on.\n3)enter the bios.\n4)enable the disk\n5)restart\n6)boot to windows as usual\n7)you should be able to see the new hard drive in my computer\n8)format it.\n9)you are done.\nif you need further assistence..\nwrite to me at:\naanonymouus@yahoo.com
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I know that if you get a external hard drive you'll be able to transfer everything over through a USB cable (PNP device).  Maybe someone can verify if a second internal will allow drag and drop file transfer capabilities...?\n\nHowever, if you do get an external you won't be able to use that as your boot drive, you'll still need to use the internal, so that can only be used as your storage drive.  If you want to wipe everything out, you'll have to get into the BIOS and delete the partition that has your OS on it (for Windows anyways).  Then you'll be able to reinstall with a fresh copy of the OS you'd like.