hard drive help.
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Power Egg
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| Posted: Feb 03, 2008 4:44 p.m. - Subject: hard drive help. |
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Well, im kinda stupid when it comes to computers. So i thought i would ask re for some help.
I recently installed a 100 gig harddrive into my computer cause my other one was practically full.
How would i make it just basically add onto my other one. What i mean is there is 50 gigs on my other one 49.9 of that is full, What i want it to do is when i save something now it saves onto the other one. Help please?
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Normal Egg
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| Posted: Feb 03, 2008 4:53 p.m. - Subject: |
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You need to format it dumbass. get your xp disk, select the HD that you just installed, and format it as NTFS partition. you can figure it out from there.
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Power Egg
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| Posted: Feb 03, 2008 4:57 p.m. - Subject: |
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it says people are replying but i cant read it, its not shwoing up
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Power Egg
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| Posted: Feb 03, 2008 4:57 p.m. - Subject: |
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scratch that
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Power Egg
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| Posted: Feb 03, 2008 5:03 p.m. - Subject: |
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I’m not that idiotic xtr. and i know to format it, but it didn’t seem to work.
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Power Egg
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| Posted: Feb 03, 2008 5:06 p.m. - Subject: |
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haha that would be great.
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Master Egg
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AIM YIM
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| Posted: Feb 03, 2008 5:06 p.m. - Subject: |
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Lol @ Xtr.
Also i thought that magnets didnt do anything to them? As there are relativly strong magnets inside, so rubbing less powerful magnets over it wouldnt do shit right?
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Power Egg
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| Posted: Feb 03, 2008 5:07 p.m. - Subject: |
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i think they tested it on mythbuster, but maybe if you used a bunch of rare earth magnets
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Master Egg
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| Posted: Feb 03, 2008 5:10 p.m. - Subject: |
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Meh im not sure i cant remember. Its gone 1am im tired cya guys later.
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Master Egg
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| Posted: Feb 03, 2008 5:20 p.m. - Subject: |
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I don’t get what you’re asking exactly.. So you have it installed as a slave drive to your main drive which is full and you want to save stuff to your new drive?
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'The Overlord'
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| Posted: Feb 03, 2008 5:28 p.m. - Subject: |
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Slave the new drive. If it’s an IDE drive it has a jumper pin on the back that needs to be set to "slave". There should be a chart on the label of what to set the jumper pin to. Run it on the same IDE cable as your other drive (as opposed to the DVD drive).
If it’s a SATA drive, it should be plug and play. If you don’t know what IDE and SATA are, then google it.
When finished, you can right click "my computer" and select "manage", then select "disk management". From there you can format it however you like. You can get more info by googling "XP disk management".
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Power Egg
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| Posted: Feb 03, 2008 5:45 p.m. - Subject: |
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its a sata, and yues it was plug and play, i fixed my problem. thanks for the help anyways
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