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To: greenspirit who wrote (10531)7/8/2000 8:23:12 PM
From: Doug Soon  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 110645
 
Hi Michael,

Now that I solved my problem, let me take a shot at this. Other ideas welcome.

The first question is what operating system you are using. Hopefully, it is later than the first release of Windows 95. That way you should have access to FAT32 which will allow you to work with large hard drives.

If that is the case, you can keep your present hard drive, but just clean up the files. Then you can use the 20GB hard drive just for data. I think you can have just one partition here (help me out here, someone). Move the data from the original drive to this new one and now you will have lots of room. If you really want to, you can divide up the 20GB drive into two parts one for the kids, one for you.

What do you think, thread? DS



To: greenspirit who wrote (10531)7/8/2000 9:44:03 PM
From: Biggie Smalls  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 110645
 
hi mike,

a coupla Qs:

1) when you say "scrub the hard drive" do you mean reformatting and nuking everything on it? (that's the way to go if you want a really clean install)

2) what kinda system do you have and what kinda hard drive do you want to install? if the processor is old/slow or the hard drive isn't fast, i would definitely partition the new drive into 2 or more parts. i find that disk maintenance (defragging, virus scan) is a lot more efficient if you have a couple of smaller drives than one honking huge one.

big



To: greenspirit who wrote (10531)7/9/2000 5:58:19 PM
From: mr.mark  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 110645
 
hi michael,

i see you definitely got lots of good assistance on your hard drive questions. every time i logged back on, someone else was supplying new info... and i quickly realized that there was nothing else that i could add of any significance!

looks like you're in for some fun. hope it all goes well. keep us posted.

:)

mark


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