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

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"henriJ" <bedpost@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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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.


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