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Pyro 10-21-2005 03:26 PM
Help with two hard drives...
 
or something like that...well he has a hp computer and I guess it works int he way that you have a split hardrive instead of one...

well on one...microsoft xp professinal is installed and one microsoft home is installed...is there anyway you can like format one so that only lets say home will be running, but you can access the other hard drive through just the one login...because

he can log into both his hardrives by choosing home or professinal...but he wants to be able to access both in the one login...never really had to see this before so I have no clue how to help it.

Any help is appreciated.

Arkan 10-21-2005 03:31 PM
Jesus christ, stop talking in riddles !! So, what you want to do basically is wipe one drive clean and boot off the other?

Ok, easy. Just format the drive you want to use as a second storage device. No need to install an operating system on it. The primary drive should pick it up.

Pyro 10-21-2005 03:33 PM
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Originally Posted by Arkan
Jesus christ, stop talking in riddles !! So, what you want to do basically is wipe one drive clean and boot off the other?

Ok, easy. Just format the drive you want to use as a second storage device. No need to install an operating system on it. The primary drive should pick it up.
Ok...so how do you exactly do this?

Coleman 10-21-2005 03:35 PM
I had that exact same problem. I had XP Home on my desktop hard drive. I got a laptop and it came installed with XP Pro. I tried to hook them up but the laptop wouldn't read the desktop's harddrive. So I wound up getting a external hard drive (i wanted to get one anyway) put the files on that, and then transfered the files from the external to the XP Pro on my Laptop.

Arkan 10-21-2005 03:38 PM
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Ok...so how do you exactly do this?
Are you saying you don't know how to format a drive? If thats the case, may i suggest http://www.hardforum.com/

I'd explain it to you now but i only got 2 hrs sleep, i'm fucking cranky, my pizza is ready, and i just don't have the fuckin' patience.

Let me know if that site helped which it will. If not, perhaps i'll muster up energy after dinner to post.

Pyro 10-21-2005 03:41 PM
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Ok...so how do you exactly do this?
Are you saying you don't know how to format a drive? If thats the case, may i suggest http://www.hardforum.com/

I'd explain it to you now but i only got 2 hrs sleep, i'm fucking cranky, my pizza is ready, and i just don't have the fuckin' patience.

Let me know if that site helped which it will. If not, perhaps i'll muster up energy after dinner to post.
IT says when I try to format that it is used by another volume or something...and i don't know if I should use the windows home xp cd because it doens't seem to eradicate the professianl one cuz it says it may make it work improperly

Bleuachdu 10-21-2005 03:48 PM
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Originally Posted by Pyro
IT says when I try to format that it is used by another volume or something...and i don't know if I should use the windows home xp cd because it doens't seem to eradicate the professianl one cuz it says it may make it work improperly
stop using computers

Pyro 10-21-2005 03:49 PM
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Originally Posted by Pyro
IT says when I try to format that it is used by another volume or something...and i don't know if I should use the windows home xp cd because it doens't seem to eradicate the professianl one cuz it says it may make it work improperly
stop using computers
Im not stupid enough to even get this problem so Ive never ever had two dirves so im just wondering how to fucking make the other drive all gone.

Bleuachdu 10-21-2005 03:51 PM
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Originally Posted by Pyro
IT says when I try to format that it is used by another volume or something...and i don't know if I should use the windows home xp cd because it doens't seem to eradicate the professianl one cuz it says it may make it work improperly
stop trying to fix computers

Scorpion -]M15F1T[- 10-21-2005 06:42 PM
Lets say the one to wipe is D:\ goto my computer right click D:\ and click format jobs done.
If D:\ is the one to keep open up the pc and swap em tound then do step A and swap back.

I personaly would wipe all the partitions of the offending HD but ah well

Johnj 10-21-2005 06:55 PM
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.


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Judas 10-21-2005 09:29 PM
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Originally Posted by Bleuachdu
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Originally Posted by Pyro
IT says when I try to format that it is used by another volume or something...and i don't know if I should use the windows home xp cd because it doens't seem to eradicate the professianl one cuz it says it may make it work improperly
stop using computers
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Poseidon 10-22-2005 04:00 AM
You might have to reset the master boot record (depending on which hdd you format).

Johnj 10-22-2005 05:57 AM
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Originally Posted by Pyro
or something like that...well he has a hp computer and I guess it works int he way that you have a split hardrive instead of one...

well on one...microsoft xp professinal is installed and one microsoft home is installed...is there anyway you can like format one so that only lets say home will be running, but you can access the other hard drive through just the one login...because

he can log into both his hardrives by choosing home or professinal...but he wants to be able to access both in the one login...never really had to see this before so I have no clue how to help it.

Any help is appreciated.


Ok...so how do you exactly do this?


IT says when I try to format that it is used by another volume or something...and i don't know if I should use the windows home xp cd because it doens't seem to eradicate the professianl one cuz it says it may make it work improperly


Im not stupid enough to even get this problem so Ive never ever had two dirves so im just wondering how to fucking make the other drive all gone.

Ok I've compiled all your posts in this thread. I keep trying to reread them to understand what you're trying to do, but end up laughing so much at how stupid you sound (the last posts runon sentence is classic). I think you should stop trying to work on computers, and become a clown.

Sgt>Stackem 10-22-2005 06:36 AM
I dont think so...................

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