Sata Hard Drive Setup

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JimiHenhdrix

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