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Hello,
D My post at the top of this second page tells you how to format the 80GB drive.)
Exactly...you do not need Windows XP installed on every drive in a PC, only on one drive.
Okies perhaps a little explanation on having multiple drives
. When you insert a floppy disk into your PC, or plug in on of those removable flash / thumb / memory stick drives into a USB port of your PC, Windows XP recognises the drive and it appears in My Computer. You can then transfer files back and forth from the floppy disk or flash drive and the 40GB drive, and save files onto a floppy disk or flash drive...right?
Having the second 80GB hard drive is exactly the same, albeit you can't remove it when the system is powered on and it has tonnes more space. Anyways, Windows XP sees the new drive, and you do exacty the same...transfer files back and forth from the 80GB drive and the 40GB drive, and save files onto the 80GB drive.
Ater all this, when you go into
My Computer, you'll see a second hard drive there with it's own drive letter.
Let's say your 40GB has the letter
C: and your 80GB has the letter
E:. You download a file from the internet and your asked where you want to save the file. You can save it to your 40GB drive or the 80GB drive by either browsing to it or typing the drive letter (C or E).
So in the case of copying music files to the 80GB drive, yes it's a simple drag and frop procedure. You can also save file directly to the drive. It's no different to saving files into a folder on your 40GB drive, except for the destinations being on different drives with different letters.
Furthermore, you can create directories (folders) in the 80GB drive...wherever and as many as you want. You can also install prgrams to the 80GB drive, and run then in Windows XP...all it will do is retrieve files and write files to the 80GB drive. Simple.
But it's better to install an run programs on the drive which Windows XP is installed because performance will be better