Phil, he said he just wanted to use the 2nd drive for data / programs (i.e.
not dual boot)
XP will read both NTFS and FAT32 - I am doing it right now.
All the best,
Ash
http://www.siroccoracing.com
Wait a minute. I think what he is asking is if he has NTFS XP on drive C,
can it read files from his old HD. If this is the question, the answer is
yes, no problem.
-Tony-
> I will probably be getting XP Pro soon (I have been saying that for
> months, but this time I mean it!) and what I would like to do is put it
> on a new hard drive on an NTFS partition and still use the FAT32
> partition on my old drive for data and some programs. Is this possible?
> Can XP recognize both? TIA
Beers and cheers
(uncle) Goy
http://www.theuspits.com
"A man is only as old as the woman he feels........"
--Groucho Marx--
Yes. I've got my hard drive partitioned into 2 parts - C Drive is NTFS ans
D Drive is FAT32. All of my games are installed on the FAT32 partition and
I can play them in WinXP wihtout problems.
I tried this trick out yesterday.
If you have an old 2Gig drive laying around, install it in your system and
put your XP swap file on it.
It speed things up nicely on my system.
but you're half right. the swap file should have its own hdd seperate from
the system drive. the faster the better, and the larger the better. and
another tip, don't set the swap file to auto-resize. make it 2.5x the
physical memory/ram. thats why i think 2gb is a little small. most people
have a lot of ram these days.
It's an ATA33 2Gig Quatum HD, set for a 1024MB "static" swap file.
I have only have 512MB RAM.
It's 333Mhz DDR, so I can't afford more just yet.
At least this HD's out of the junk box, and doing something productive. ;-)
> >I tried this trick out yesterday.
> >If you have an old 2Gig drive laying around, install it in your system
and
> >put your XP swap file on it.
> >It speed things up nicely on my system.
> an OLD 2gb would be slow, and a little small.
> but you're half right. the swap file should have its own hdd seperate
from
> the system drive. the faster the better, and the larger the better. and
> another tip, don't set the swap file to auto-resize. make it 2.5x the
> physical memory/ram. thats why i think 2gb is a little small. most
people
> have a lot of ram these days.
The only reason my D drive is FAT 32 is so I can store a Ghost image of C
drive on there and restore it from DOS using a DOS boot disk.
Its a great product, saves a lot of time when upgrading HDs (just did a
30Gig to 60Gig upgrade).
It's an ATA33 2Gig Quatum HD, set for a 1024MB "static" swap file.
I only have 512MB RAM.
It's 333Mhz DDR, so I can't afford more just yet.
At least this HD's out of the junk box, and doing something productive. ;-)
> >I tried this trick out yesterday.
> >If you have an old 2Gig drive laying around, install it in your system
and
> >put your XP swap file on it.
> >It speed things up nicely on my system.
> an OLD 2gb would be slow, and a little small.
> but you're half right. the swap file should have its own hdd seperate
from
> the system drive. the faster the better, and the larger the better. and
> another tip, don't set the swap file to auto-resize. make it 2.5x the
> physical memory/ram. thats why i think 2gb is a little small. most
people
> have a lot of ram these days.
It does...It just can't read the image file from a NTFS partition from DOS
when restoring. Supposedly Ghost can write to CDs in DOS too but doesn't
seem to support my burner.
Haven't tried the network image thing yet.
Drive to Drive image copies are a snap, once I learned the trick.
You need to delete all partitions on destination drive.
Since my destination was new, this wasn't an issue.
Yeah, Ghost is a real godsend when upgrading hard disks.
