removing os

[PardeGT]

I want to add a second hard drive that will now have the os on it. I want to take off the old os from the original drive and be able to copy back and forth data between the two. What would be the easiest/fastest method?

I just need the removal of the os info as I know how to format and master/slave the drives.

Thanks guys.

[Hpro]

All you need to do is th plug in the drive a slave - no need to take the OS of it.. You still didn't tell me waht kind of system board you have - can't give you a working cirquit for the fan control if I don't know what mobo you use...

[PardeGT]

Sorry, I got busy doing one too many things. It's an abit bx133 raid.

As to this post, if I make the new drive an active partition with the os I can still slave in the old drive with the os on it? I was just thinking you couldn't have two active partitions.

Thanks Chris

[Hpro]

Yes because of the drive letter comes before the Active partition so if you choose in the bios to boot from D:\ then it would just dropp the C:\drive behind the D:\ and boot out of there - and visa versa - ou can have as many active partition you like - no problems with that - using this way is very confident for Dual or Triple or Quad OS boot.. I triple boot this computer here between Win98 C:\ Primary SLAVE, - Win2K D:\ Primary MASTER ,- RED HAT E:\SECONDARY MASTER
and then a extended partition on the Win98 Drive to store data.. Which is E:\when running on Win2k and will be D:\while running Win98 but become FHD4) while running on Red Hat since Linux doens't use drive letters as Windows does..and BTW Windows does not reconise UNIX partitions..

Look below this is the configuration..

[PardeGT]

Sounds great. I will give it a go. I've done basic one drive systems or just an extra drive for space but not used two os before. I want to get win2k so maybe I will have win98 and win2k in the near future.

thanks again