I will be picking up a Maxtor 40 Gig ATA133 harddrive on the weekend. At the moment I've only got a 6G drive that's pretty much maxed out. How should I best set this thing up?
I'm running Win98 at the moment and the only real program that I want to try and keep is the fax/answering machine that's on the drive. Of course I want to keep all my data and pictures.
At first I was thinking I should be able to just plug this thing in as a slave and then format the sucker as one big drive. Is there a reason I should partition it? I need to keep it fat32 as there's another machine that will need to access the drive. Do I need a different cable than what I have connecting my original 6G drive, I think it's a ATA66, but it could be as old as ATA33.
Now I got to thinking, this is a faster drive, maybe this should be the master with my OS. So how do I get that setup? Then I got to thinking some more, I think it'd be pretty cool if I could get W2Kpro running on my box, much more stable than Win98. But then again, my Win98 has been pretty stable from the beginning. The laptop is a different story, WinMe.
I'd like to have this drive as a backup device for the laptop and of course regular storage. I'll probably be adding a CDRW down the road for more longer term backups.
Paul
There are three kinds of people in this world; those that can count, and those that can't.
I'm running Win98 at the moment and the only real program that I want to try and keep is the fax/answering machine that's on the drive. Of course I want to keep all my data and pictures.
At first I was thinking I should be able to just plug this thing in as a slave and then format the sucker as one big drive. Is there a reason I should partition it? I need to keep it fat32 as there's another machine that will need to access the drive. Do I need a different cable than what I have connecting my original 6G drive, I think it's a ATA66, but it could be as old as ATA33.
Now I got to thinking, this is a faster drive, maybe this should be the master with my OS. So how do I get that setup? Then I got to thinking some more, I think it'd be pretty cool if I could get W2Kpro running on my box, much more stable than Win98. But then again, my Win98 has been pretty stable from the beginning. The laptop is a different story, WinMe.
I'd like to have this drive as a backup device for the laptop and of course regular storage. I'll probably be adding a CDRW down the road for more longer term backups.
Paul
There are three kinds of people in this world; those that can count, and those that can't.
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