Re: two hard drives

It doesn't matter whether you have it master or slave if everything is
working. What matters is which drive you have Windows installed on and which
drive is your C drive. There are several things you can do.

1) Create your own separate user account, make it password protected, and
then install all programs and save all your documents on your separate drive
that you have assigned a drive letter by using Computer Management under
Administrative Tools.

2) Post here under another thread or go to Google.com and type in how to
dual boot with XP (if you are using XP). You obviously have an OS on one
drive working, so leave that one alone. What you will want to do is set up
the second drive as its own partition and install another OS on it. Then
when you boot up, you will get to choose which OS (drive) you want to boot.
If you are worried about your dad seeing your drive's contents, then you
need to learn how to secure your drive and its access with a password.


"Aquil" <Aquil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:832F67DA-42E4-44EC-A9B9-AFCBA47CDC82@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Need help have my old hard drive from my dell pc and would like to still
> use
> it want to put it in my dads pc can i do this and and still use my hard
> drive
> seprate from my dads because i dont wont to have my things or settings on
> his
> had drive so how will i boot up my hard drive or acces my version of xp
> .I
> have it already on a separate ide cable as a master then sharing the same
> cable as slave or is this wrong please help


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