JimiHenhdrix

I hope somebody can help me.

I have just built a new computer, there is two hard drives installed if i go into my computer i only see one drive which is c but on the device manager i can see two hard disks.

Both hard drives are the same make ,size and model

Mobo Board : MSI K8N NEO4
AMD 64 3200
TWO 512MB MEMORY
TWO MAXTOR 200GIB HARD DRIVE SATA CONNECTION
Windows xp

What i want to do is have one with the operating system on it and the other just too store files, or possible later install a different operating system and have a dual boot option.

I hope someone can help me out ,

Cheers

Filip

what os do you want to install?

maybe the other one isn't formated at all

Trizoy

go see if it shows up for a format. Go start,settings, control panels, administrative tools, computer management, and storage "disk managment" If you see your other dirve in there right click on it and format it.. Easy huh. (winxp)

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JimiHenhdrix

I have gone too disk managment and yes there it is but out off 200 GB drive i have 189.92 GB UNALLOCATED.
And my C drive is 189.91 GB NTFS

When i click on the drive to formatt it the only option i have is too partition.

Can you please give me some more advice on this

Trizoy

Yes You must partition it then format it... Your on the right track. Right click it, parition then format it.

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JimiHenhdrix

Sorry i didn,t mean too sound stupid, it was just the fact that it was showing the same storage as my main c drive.
With some of the stuff i have read i thought i might have set it up as raid 1 configuration (where one hard drive copyies the files in the other one as a back up)

JimiHenhdrix

Thanks for the help all sorted now

You are the stars