need help installing new HD
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The two links seen here wil help you get familiar with the DM tool in both XP and Vista. The 5% shows that you did something right and are now seeing a new partition being formatted. Your concern about seeing Windows wiped is none existant as you are finding out since you are running this while in Windows.
The first is from the MSTechnet resource page regarding XP Pro and Home, Winserver editions, and 2000 Pro as seen at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb457110.aspx You will note the screen shot should look familiar by now.
A far better one is seen for Vista with several images as the visual reference to the guide seen at http://www.vista4beginners.com/How-...using-only-Windows-Vista-Disk-Management-tool You will note that everything mentioned earlier can easily be seen in the right click menu in the guide there.
The first is from the MSTechnet resource page regarding XP Pro and Home, Winserver editions, and 2000 Pro as seen at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb457110.aspx You will note the screen shot should look familiar by now.
A far better one is seen for Vista with several images as the visual reference to the guide seen at http://www.vista4beginners.com/How-...using-only-Windows-Vista-Disk-Management-tool You will note that everything mentioned earlier can easily be seen in the right click menu in the guide there.
SAD_DC
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ok well I partitioned it and now it looks like this....
http://img135.imageshack.us/img135/9477/pic1ug3.jpg
is this right? or am I suppose to have some unallocated space?
and please let me know if theres anything else that needs to be done before I can
start adding files/folders into it.
also what is the reason for extending the volume? because I see it on the tutorial but I dont know why It would be necessary..
Thanks for your help.
http://img135.imageshack.us/img135/9477/pic1ug3.jpg
is this right? or am I suppose to have some unallocated space?
and please let me know if theres anything else that needs to be done before I can
start adding files/folders into it.
also what is the reason for extending the volume? because I see it on the tutorial but I dont know why It would be necessary..
Thanks for your help.
The term primary applies to the type of the partition not which drive is seen as the OS drive. You did plug the new drive in as the primary master with the Drive #0 seen there. The drive with Windows installed on it appears as Drive #1 being the primary slave while still seeing it as the C drive there. That's the good news!
The 4mb of unallocated drive space is typical for the Windows installer. Apparently with Vista as well as it is for XP. This is one reason why I use GParted live for cd the Linux drive tool since it fully shows all drive space when creating a new partition.
The #0 and #1 simply refer to the sata ports you plugged both drives into. The drive with Windows installed on it should remain at the top of the list seen in the bios to keep that as the default boot device there. With Vista's Disk Management tool you can easily resize a partition while you couldn't do that without a 3rd party partitioning tool in XP. All you would have to do there is extend the C partition that 4mb to see the unallocated space filled in without problems.
The 4mb of unallocated drive space is typical for the Windows installer. Apparently with Vista as well as it is for XP. This is one reason why I use GParted live for cd the Linux drive tool since it fully shows all drive space when creating a new partition.
The #0 and #1 simply refer to the sata ports you plugged both drives into. The drive with Windows installed on it should remain at the top of the list seen in the bios to keep that as the default boot device there. With Vista's Disk Management tool you can easily resize a partition while you couldn't do that without a 3rd party partitioning tool in XP. All you would have to do there is extend the C partition that 4mb to see the unallocated space filled in without problems.
He's referring to the 14mb of unallocated drive space seen on the Windows drive there. The new drive is all set like Cromewell pointed out.
Since that is seen on the host drive and not the second drive you can take advantage of Vista's new capabity of resizing partitions. When booting from the installation disk you simply go into the repair tools section instead of choosing the "install now" option. Once there simply look for the drive tools since now you can do more then create and remove partitions but also format, reformat, and resize any.
The "1" on the 14mb was barely visible in your screen shot and only a small amount of actual space. That was from the XP installer since you replaced XP with Vista. Once in the drive tools section you simply choose the resize option to expand that to fill the 14mb gap seen there. It won't effect anything else being that small of a change to the Windows primary there. One reason I always used GParted is that it eliminates these minor annoyances caused by the XP installer. Vista sees that corrected.
Since that is seen on the host drive and not the second drive you can take advantage of Vista's new capabity of resizing partitions. When booting from the installation disk you simply go into the repair tools section instead of choosing the "install now" option. Once there simply look for the drive tools since now you can do more then create and remove partitions but also format, reformat, and resize any.
The "1" on the 14mb was barely visible in your screen shot and only a small amount of actual space. That was from the XP installer since you replaced XP with Vista. Once in the drive tools section you simply choose the resize option to expand that to fill the 14mb gap seen there. It won't effect anything else being that small of a change to the Windows primary there. One reason I always used GParted is that it eliminates these minor annoyances caused by the XP installer. Vista sees that corrected.