if everything is working fine on the old drive and you have no real reason
to switch the boot drive, i'd leave everything alone. maybe in the future if
you upgrade to XP, you could  switch the boot drive to the new drive.

you said you had both drives as one large partition? how? i'm not sure i've
ever heard of that as an option.

chuck finnigan
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----- Original Message -----
From: "John Freibergs" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, August 02, 2004 5:19 PM
Subject: [PCBUILD] New HDD


> Hi, everyone,
>
> I'm returning my recalled Fujitsu HDD and since I had to open up the box I
replaced it with a 120Gb Western drive only because that was what Best Buy
had on sale this week and the cost was a wash for what I'm getting for the
old drive.  Right now I have a 40 Gb Western drive that's a year old as the
Master with Win98se on it and I installed the new drive as the slave.  Both
drives are  each set up as one large partition.  At this point I have no
particular use I want to make of the new drive but I'm wondering if there's
anything to be gained by switching my files over to it and making that the
boot drive.  And is there anything to be gained by setting up either or both
drives with multiple partitions?  I'm running a celeron 950mhz processor
with 512 Mb of ram and Win98se.  I'm sure there are multiple opinions out
there, but I'm just looking to learn here.
>
> Thanks
>
> John
>
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