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icallmedan
12-19-2003, 07:49 PM
How do I partition and format a Slave Drive. Since my 80Gb WD is going to be my main drive with my OS, I was thinking about slaving my 20Gig Quantum Fireball. How would I partition and format that?
not important
12-19-2003, 07:57 PM
If you have the manufacturer's disk for the Quantum you can use it. If not, you can use Fdisk.
Joeberg
12-19-2003, 07:59 PM
http://forum.pcmech.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=83444
This thread Seems to cover the process well....
icallmedan
12-19-2003, 08:05 PM
Alright, Thanks.
icallmedan
12-19-2003, 08:08 PM
Is all I have to do format, then I can start storing files on it?
Cricket
12-19-2003, 08:18 PM
Originally posted by icallmedan
Is all I have to do format, then I can start storing files on it? Yep.

What OS are you using? If WinXP, are you working from Disk Management?

:) Cricket
icallmedan
12-19-2003, 08:30 PM
Yeah XP, I will probably just do the right click on drive, and format. Also the fact that I have XP installed on the 20gig right now won't interfer with the boot process will it?
DragonNOA1
12-19-2003, 08:53 PM
Make sure you jumper the slave drive as a slave on the back of the drive itself. Install and hopefully everything runs ok, but are you saying you have XP loaded on both drives? If you do, just format over the 20 gig and all should be good and you can start using it for data and such.
I don't know about the boot process. I would think if both drives are read as C: then your BIOS would say boot from IDE0, so which ever is the master on there would be booted from. I'm unsure though.
icallmedan
12-19-2003, 09:00 PM
That's what I was thinking....but does anyone know for sure?