<< Would there be any problems if you installed XP on a NTFS partition and had a FAT32 partition? For example could you copy/move files between the two without any problems? >>
Sure, WinXP will happily read/write both NTFS and FAT32, no problems whatsoever. But if you don't have to access the...
I divided my 100 GB drive into a 20 GB partition for Windows XP (NTFS) and most applications I run and the rest as a data partition (also NTFS) for movies, mp3, photos etc. That way it's less hassle if I have to reinstall the OS at some point (than it would be if I had it all on one huge partition).
Strange thing is that everything concerning the HD's are set to auto in my bios. And upon startup it is recognized as WD1000BB+<some more> which seems correct. It's on the post-bios screen the drive is shown as LRG, PIO-4, 100GB. I've installed my OS now (WinXP) and everything seems to work, but...
Thanks for the suggestions, I discovered that the drive wanted to be configured as single and not master (as I think all my other drives accept when being a single drive on one controller). After configuring the drive as single it was detected immediately. Problem (?) now is that the post-bios...
Hi, I just removed my system hard disk (IBM 14 GB, ATA-33) and replaced it with my new Western Digital 100 GB (ATA-100), but now my BIOS is extremely slow on startup, and sometimes it won't recognize the WD-drive at all.
I previously had the WD-drive as slave on the secondary controller just...
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