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||bass
Posts: 628/817 |
No. You can generally install XP on D to begin with if you tell it to. You need to install LINUX second to make sure the XP installer doesn't override your copy of Lilo/Grub/whatever that most linux distros like to install to the bootsector. |
neotransotaku
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1. You wont' corrupt C: but you have to tell the OS to look there instead of where they already are--so you are better of uninstalling and reinstalling
2. as long as you don't tell XP to format C: -- you probably will have to rename C:\Windows and C:\Documents and Settings before you try to reinstall WinXP
3. Yeah--however, there is an order to how you install them though... so i believe you need to install Linux first then WinXP to get WinXP on D:
When you install two hard drives to the same IDE cable, you need to set the jumpers to say which one is master and which one is slave. most HDs have diagrams on them telling you how to do it. |
MadMikeXP
Posts: 125/168 |
Like it says in my post I have a new unused maxtor 20 gig hard drive from computer store and I have 3 questions to ask is:
1: it possible that I can move some of my programs that are already installed on my old hard drive there to my new one without corrupting drive C: ?
2: If I have to install XP again due to a system error will it affect the new drive and destroy everything in it ?
3.Can I have Linux Suse 9.3 on the old hard drive and windows xp use the the new one ? if so do I need to set both hard drives to cable select so that Linux and XP won't fight over who gets to start up first ? |
