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?

 

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

 

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.

 

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

 

Way to not answer the question.

 

WAy to be a assohole.

 

Way to point out the obvious.

 

Ladies and gents we have a winner.

 

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

 

OH yeah, duh2me

thanks vosko