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Old 10-05-2007, 10:34 AM   #1
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Question Second Hard Drive

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I have got two hard drives installed in my computer and I would like to use the second drive to store music or other files. It has already an operating system and set as slave. How can I use it to store music or files in it?

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Old 10-05-2007, 10:40 AM   #2
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The second hard drive doesn't need an operating system on it (unless you're dual booting). If you want to use it for data storage just navigate to the second hard drive when you're saving files. If you want to move files from the primary to the secondary HDD, open Windows Explorer, create a folder on the second HDD and then drag and drop your files from the primary to the secondary HDD.

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Thanks boss for the advice so How can I remove the Operating System on the slave Drive ? By format it ??
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Thanks boss for the advice so How can I remove the Operating System on the slave Drive ? By format it ??
Yes, formatting the partition will remove the OS. Or you could just manually delete everything.

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