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January 4th, 2003, 05:31 AM
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Re: Adding a second Hard Drive to a computer
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SJ, You back up the registry?
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Well, having a clean, and fully set-up registry is better than having to reinstall everything
Not to mention that all the networking, and other annoying stuff is caught by the image too 
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January 4th, 2003, 05:38 AM
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Re: Adding a second Hard Drive to a computer
I am now reformatting my HD to have a separate partition for Winblows. 3 GB should be enough. It will allow me to wipe it and reinstall windows easily in the future, to keep the system at optimal levels. 
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January 4th, 2003, 06:15 AM
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Re: Adding a second Hard Drive to a computer
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Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
I am now reformatting my HD to have a separate partition for Winblows. 3 GB should be enough. It will allow me to wipe it and reinstall windows easily in the future, to keep the system at optimal levels.
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You make that sound easy. Don't the applications need to be setup in the registry?
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January 4th, 2003, 11:08 PM
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Re: Adding a second Hard Drive to a computer
I've done complete HD reformats and clean reinstalls of Windows95 twice; once to purge a particularly nasty virus, and once to rebuild a corrupted device driver.
I may have to try to add a second HD to this system; I think the scavenged HD has the drivers for the backup monitor.
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January 5th, 2003, 02:33 AM
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Re: Adding a second Hard Drive to a computer
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I am now reformatting my HD to have a separate partition for Winblows. 3 GB should be enough. It will allow me to wipe it and reinstall windows easily in the future, to keep the system at optimal levels.
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Yes, it should work well.
I have been working with 2 GB and have had no difficulty with upgrades etc.
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January 5th, 2003, 02:45 AM
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Re: Adding a second Hard Drive to a computer
It is generally recommended that you use the hard drive with the better stats as your primary drive...
Most likely this will be the new drive...
With that 60 gig I recommend that you partition it as follows
c: 10 gigs
d: 25 gigs
e: 25 gigs
Old drive
f : 20 gigs
g : 20 gigs
Only have the OS on the C drive...
d: install programs to
e: install games to
f: data drive, ftp stuff and back up of data from d and e
g: install testing software / demo's or stuff your going to delete..
That way if you need to reinstall the OS only the c drive needs to be formated... and u do not lose any data on a rebuild.
If you MOBO can handle auto detect... then no problems on installing the new drive...
If not switch the pin on the old drive to slave and on the new one to master...
H : and beyond will be your cd roms dvd roms etc...
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January 5th, 2003, 02:55 AM
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Re: Adding a second Hard Drive to a computer
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quote: Originally posted by Gryphin:
..Use the 60 as your Main drive because it is newer and more relyable...
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From personal experience, a dangerous assumption... I've been bitten before by assuming the new drive was going to run as long as my old drive...Lasted 3 days... The CDR solution (at least when it comes to personal backup) IMO is a relatively quick and inexpensive solution. At about $.20 US per CD (640Mb), it doesn't take a whole lot of expensive media. Once you get a good backup, just do daily incrememtal backups.
Business solutions are an entirely different story... rdouglass
20 cents a CD!!!!!!!!!!!
Oh, to be so lucky as to live in the U.S.
The best I have been able to do is 50 cents a CD. And that is buying generic, in bulk and on sale.
The reason is that Canadian sales of blank CD's and other removeable data storage have a "surcharge" for the support Canadian artists.
The Canadian government is very careful to say it is not a "tax" but the effect is the same. But whatever you call it the effect is the same.
So, right now the surcharge is about 30% of the price of a blank CD.
This year, the representatives for the artists wanted a further increase in the surcharge.
A groundswell composed of various manufacturers, computer Users, hobbyists, etc opposed the application which if approved would have meant that the retail price of a blank CD would more than double.
So, what did the commission do? It postponed everything for a year!
The interesting thing is that we Canadians have been paying the "surcharge" for a number of years and the Canadian artists have yet to see a penny of it.
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January 5th, 2003, 03:20 AM
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Re: Adding a second Hard Drive to a computer
20 cents a CD-R, That is outragous. I don't spend more than 14 cents.
The labels, Ink, and CD pockets cost much more than the actual CD.
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January 5th, 2003, 05:52 AM
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January 5th, 2003, 06:03 AM
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Re: Adding a second Hard Drive to a computer
Ooops correction.
The 50 cents applied to a 50 pack I bought about two years ago.
I did buy a 100 pack on boxing day for $39.95 which is 40 cents a CD. One of the benefits of living in Alberta is that we do do not have a provincial sales tax.
Also 40 cents Canadian translates into about 27 cents US.
But sales tax or not, there is still a wide gulf between 27 cents and 14 cents, most of which is accountable by the "surcharge"  .
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