Re: Installing additional SCSI hard drives in a W2K-Pro system

henriJ wrote:
My existing SCSI hard drive (HD) is too small. I have a much larger new HD and want to install it as my main HD while retaining my existing HD for file storage use only.

The mechanical part of the SCSI HD installation is well understood and although I have back-ups of all of my OS files and programs, I have no problem with doing a clean reinstall of W2K-Pro and all programs on the new, main, HD.

My problem is this: Can I simply manually erase all of the existing W2K-Pro OS files (they are all in a fairly small 'C' partition) on my existing HD while leaving all of the data files in place (in other partitions) and then fire up the rearranged system with both HDs? My assumption is that I would have to use W2K-Pro's Disk Manager to manually change the drive letters on the old HD after rearranging the system or would the drive letters on the old HD sort themselves out automatically?

Thanks for any and all comments and advice.

Henri,

Your best bet would be to install the new HDD at ID0 and leave the old HDD out until you've installed the OS. Once the OS is installed, connect the original HDD at ID1. If you connect the original HDD at ID1 before you install the OS, Win2k installer will spot your original partitions. It will give you a clear option to install into the partition you require but may assign a drive letter to each of the existing partitions on your old HDD before assigning one to your new HDD. While this is not necessarily a problem, it can be a little strange to get used to having your boot partition labelled something other than C:

HTH,

Bogwitch.
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