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To: Jeff Jordan who wrote (9922)	1/13/2000 12:42:00 PM
From: jw	Read Replies (4) of 14778

Jeff, adding to wily & Howard's thoughts, here's an article I copied from somewhere. Perhaps wily & Howard would comment on this. I would like to add a second HDD in a removable tray and install Linux on it but I'm scared to try it. <g>. You go first then I'll follow, OK? want to replace your old 500mb hard drive (remember when you thought that was huge?) with a new 80 trillion gigabyte drive (well, not THAT big) and be able to keep your whole Win95 set up as it is without having to re-install Win95 and all your programs ? It's easier than you think. Just follow the steps below. WARNING!! Any time you monkey with your hardware you should be sure and do a good backup of any ir-replaceable data first. Install your new hard disk as a slave. You'll need to set jumpers on the drives to do that. See the instructions on the drive labels or visit the maker's web site. If your system does not auto-recognize the new drive on start up you will have to go into the BIOS setup and set up the drive. Go to a command prompt and run FDISK. Set the new drive as a primary partition. Reboot and format the new drive with the s switch i.e. Format D: /S (if D is your new drive). If you don't have an emergency start up diskette, make one now from CONTROL PANEL - ADD/REMOVE PROGRAMS - CREATE START UP DISK. Select START - RUN and type in the OPEN field, XCOPY C:\. /E /H /K /R /C D: and click on OK. The switches are: /E copies directories and subdirectories even if empty. /H copies hidden and system files also./K retains the files attributes on copy. /R overwrites read only files. /C continues copying even if errors occur. When copy is done shut down system. Swap your drives around. Either remove your old drive or keep it as a second hard drive. Reverse the jumpers so the new drive is now the master. Turn on the PC and reset the CMOS to reflect the new drive positions. Boot up on your start-up diskette. Run FDISK and make partition one of the new drive the active one. Reboot again and you should boot up on your new humongous hard drive. Write down on paper how many months you think it will take you to fill up your new hard drive. Divide that number by two. Take the answer and divide it by two also. Multiply that answer by .25 (25%) and you'll have the real number of months before your new drive is full. (Don't get excited, I just made this last paragraph up. But... it might be closer to reality than you think.) Regards, /jw

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