Second Drive

g4m3rof1337

g4m3rof1337

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I am on Vista, and want to add another formatted drive, and have it be for files and storage, but accessible from my main C Drive.


Any tips or guidance?


Thanks.
 
yeah go into manage in my computer and disk management then format. it will take you through a process and when you get to the mount part it will say D change it to a file in the C: hd
 
The drive currently has an OS and stuff on it, should I format it on one computer, then plug it in mine and reformat it to mount it?


And can doing this mess up my C Drive?


Thanks.
 
your old c drive is your main drive and you do not want to format it but boot from it, right?

your second drive is the additional drive and you want to format, right?

but the 2nd drive has an OS, right?

as long as you're not booting from the 2nd drive it's ok. just do what brian said and format it. just be sure that when you connect the drive go to bios and make sure that 2nd drive is not on the top of the boot order list. i'd personally not have it in there at all.

you can format it either way. i'd prefer to format it in your own pc and not the other as i can do on-the-fly last minute backups to the old c drive.
 
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