Comments on: Partitioning

By: Mary

Mary — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 17:06:50 +0000

Your site was a big help in formatting my new hard drive. Thank you.

By: ryan

ryan — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 00:57:04 +0000

hi martin what you have to do is set the jumpers on the ide drive to say slave so when you save something it will go top the master (your sata drive) hope that helps .

By: Martin

Martin — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 15:35:09 +0000

help please im not sure what to do.
my windows system is on my old ide hard drive its only 13G.
so i got a new hard drive which is a sata one 250G.
ive managed to install it and it works. The only thing is when i download things and games and programs it still saves on the old drive how do i set it up so that the windows system is still on the old drive but the file system is on the new drive so that when i save something to my docs or install a new program its using the sata drive not the ide?

By: Joe

Joe — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 09:20:34 +0000

Hey, your not over your head you’ve just missed out on something to do when installing a IDE harddrive with operating systems above windows 98. All you need to do is plug it back in like you did before but when you go into My Computer, you will notice the drive will not display that’s because you need to format the drive and in windows xp and vista you need to right-click on My Computer and go to “Manage”. In the window that comes up, click Disk Management in the left pane. Once it loads, you should see an “Initialize Disk” wizard pop up. Partition and format the disk to your liking, but make sure not to convert it to a Dynamic Disk, as doing will provide plenty of annoyances later on. By the way i’m 15 years old =] Hope i helped.

By: michele

michele — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 22:12:47 +0000

Thank you! Found lots of articles on how to install the second hard drive. Only this one helped explain what to do after that.

By: Larry Baker

Larry Baker — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 17:03:55 +0000

I have A compaq presario sr2023wm with windows xp sp2 I have had over a year My old computer was ibm with w98. My new computer has sata set up for the hard drive and also a ide plug on the mother board, I was told that I could plug my old ide hard drive in and it would be good to go like on the old computer but when I did that nothing showed up, with that I took it out. I looked on the internet to try and find out what to do but talk over my head when they talk about partition and DOS they lost me.
Any suggestions or am I in over my head
Larry Baker

By: barb

barb — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 01:52:30 +0000

Thanks for the detailed yet consice instructions – explaining exactly what i need to know.
It was very easy to find your article, unlike trying to find this info in the MS KB.
Thanks again.
This will be the first place i look in the future!
Barb

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Installing A Hard Drive - Step by Step » PC Mechanic — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 17:03:00 +0000

[...] Now that you have installing your hard drive under your belt, you might be interested in partitioning your hard drive (that means dividing your space so you can separate [...]