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To: Biggie Smalls who wrote (10537)	7/9/2000 1:02:18 AM
From: greenspirit	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 110645

Hi Big, thanks for giving me a hand. Yes, I would prefer to completely scrub the old hard drive. Is there a particular way which is better than most. For example, should I do it in DOS or will windows accomplish basically the same thing? It's an old Quantex Pentium 200 Mhz system. 64 megs of RAM. Still seems to work well for the kids learning games and such though. It used to be mine a couple of years ago when I was in my "download everything which sounded cool on the net phase". :) I can only imagine the junk still left on it. I tried cleaning it up with one of those cleaner programs, but now I would just as soon scrub it completely and reinstall only the kids software on it. I really like your idea of partitioning the hardrive. Do I need special software to accomplish that, or can windows 98 handle it by itself? The hardrive Specs are: Western Digital 5,400 rpm rotational speed, Ultra ATA/66 interface, Enhanced 40-pin IDE interface, 66.6 MBps data transfer rate. I really have no idea what type of hardrive is on the system currently. All I do know is 3.2 gigabites is no where near enough for the 40 or 50 kids learning programs we've accumulated! I heard somewhere that if you had two hardrives, one needed to be designated as "master" and one as "slave". Is that true? My vision of the process goes something like this. Completely clean the old hardrive and install WIN 98. Then install the new hardrive selecting it as the Master one. Then perhaps partition the new larger one and install all the kids programs on it. That way I could sort of protect the operating system from being corrupted with any new games, as well as allow a maximum amount of room to be available in the future. Does this make sense Big? Mike