rotarychainsaw

I'm goint to be putting in a new motherboard soon and everyone I talk to says you should reformat and reinstall windows after a new Mobo. All my cool stuff is on the secondary HD, so Formatting the primary is no big deal.



I was wondering though should I install windows with the secondary unplugged then plug it in after everything is up and running? Or will it be alright if its I just leave it and reinstall. Basically I don't want windows install to erase my secondary HD. I doubt it will, but I don't have too much experience with this.



Advise?

Srce

Get a USB HDD, it's the best thing I ever got for my laptop, well, except the wireless ****.

CGeek2k

As long as the two drives are recognized as separate partitions (no RAID) reformatting should be no problem with both plugged in.

I recommend using a small partition for just the OS and installing games and other programs to a different partition. WinXP only needs about a 5 GB partition for a full install.

rotarychainsaw

Well c: is one partition and d: is the other. Theyre 2 different drives, so I think I should be ok. Thanks.

UniqueTII

Way to not answer the question.

Srce

WAy to be a assohole.

UniqueTII

Way to point out the obvious.

Fd3BOOST

Ladies and gents we have a winner.

vosko

if you are worried simply unplug the power to it then there is no way in hell you can get rid of the data

rotarychainsaw

OH yeah, duh2me

thanks vosko