New drive.

botheredbothered Manchester UK
edited September 2004 in Hardware
I'm going out shortly for another drive, a Seagate barracuda 120Gb SATA. I have three HDDs already,(c,d,e) total 85Gb, but am running out of space. Two of the drives are on IDE1, the third is on a SATA port with a SATA\PATA adaptor. I want to put the new SATA drive in then transfer some progs\files to the new drive so I can then take out one of the smaller drives to put into the kids PC. Will this mess up the drive letters for my optical drives? (f,g) IDE2. I would like to take the smaller drive out in a week or so.

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  • botheredbothered Manchester UK
    edited September 2004
    After checking what was on one of the smaller drives, 40Gb, I decided there wasn't much on it I need to keep, It's mainly games on there. So I got the IDE drive so I can just swap it. I'll just keep the save games etc.
  • botheredbothered Manchester UK
    edited September 2004
    OK, I installed the drive and ran seagates disc wizard. It won't let me use all the 120Gb as FAT32, it made he have four 30+Gb partitions. I'd rather have just one big one. The kids PC has a 60Gb drive as FAT 32 so why can't I have one on here? Also now in windows explorer my DVD drive has dissapeared. Help guys.
  • ShortyShorty Manchester, UK Icrontian
    edited September 2004
    The 120gb limit is because you are using FAT32 mate. Time to change to NTFS :)

    Right click on my computer -> manage -> Disk Management

    Whats listed :) (take a screenshot).
  • botheredbothered Manchester UK
    edited September 2004
    I just deleted the partitions in disc management and ended up with two partitions. Can I have two 60Gb drives? Can I have NTFS and FAT32 on differant drives?

    edit, back in a minute, just going to reboot.
  • ShortyShorty Manchester, UK Icrontian
    edited September 2004
    Yes and yes :)
  • botheredbothered Manchester UK
    edited September 2004
    Lovely, now got one 120Gb drive NTFS and my DVD back (please don't ask)
    Is there any advantage to converting the other drives to NTFS and would everything still work?
  • ShortyShorty Manchester, UK Icrontian
    edited September 2004
    They will operate together just fine :)

    The advantage of NTFS is that it's designed for Windows NT based operating systems (Win2k & WinXP). It means you can have drives in excess of 36gb (without cheating) and is less likely to become heavily fragmented. You will also find that you should almost never have to run chkdsk again if Windows crashes :)
  • botheredbothered Manchester UK
    edited September 2004
    Thanks Shorty, but would it be worth converting the other drives or would I loose what's on them?
  • mikechinymmikechinym New
    edited September 2004
    u better becareful during conversion. if don't the data will lost.
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