If you have two hard drives, can you wipe the second and just use it as a storage device?

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  I like this one... (and so do a lot of other people if you read the comments).

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• When I click on computer it tells me that I have two hard drives

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  The other is disk data backup, also with 465 GB.

  now please can you tell me what the backup hard drive data is for.

  and how I can use it.

  can I put some of my files on it.

  or when I fill the disk hard vista will it then go to the hard disk of 2 nd,

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  You have two physical disks or you have a disk partitioned into two identical partitions?  You must open your PC and watch.  However, if two physical disks or two partitions on a physical disk, probably little in terms of use.  The additional drive has a drive letter (i.. e, D or E or something like that)?  If it has a drive letter, there the files on the disk?  Use Windows Explorer to search for.

  If you have a second empty drive, it can be interesting to use it as a backup.  Most versions of Windows have built a backup program.  Some may clone a drive, and it is the best way if the goal is speedy recovery operation.  You make just a bit-to-bit drive C and then if something happens to this player, you have a copy of the morror from where you start.  Do you the back up data you don't need to back up, however.

  Other backup programs will bring copies only specific data to you and in most cases, that's fine.  If sometrhing occurs on the C drive, replace you it, reinstall Windows and your other programs, and then copy your data specific to your user profile.

  While there is an element of risk if the two discs are in the same PC, a defect in the drive does not necessarily mean that they will both fail, then what you get is more likely to be available in the case of a faulre.

  Have two partitions on the same drive adds a bit of risk.  If something were to happen to your physical drive, you lose not only the C drive, but whatever the drive is mapped to the other partition.

  In all good backup system, you must also use off-site, such as DropBox and SkyDrive storage.  It wouldn't hurt to burn your WIndows on a CD or a DVD profile regularly also.  You should have three copies of any file that you feel is important.

• I have two hard drives, how do I enroll their

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  If what you want is more space, you just install a second drive in your laptop - secondary hard drive bay or replace the existing with a larger drive.  You do not 'synchronize' readers.

  You have already installed the second hard drive?  If so, it should show in my computer as drive D:-is this?

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  I can find two hard drives, but he did tell me that one is the 500 GB or 250 GB. Need to get my 500 to the C: drive.

  If you start the computer (start-> computer), you can see the drives with their letters of player sizes and how much space is used.  If your computer is running however, I would recommend against trying to move the letters because it is likely to make your computer unusable.

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• WE made the Notebook G71-340 have TWO hard drive bays

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  SOM

  Original title: startup problem

  Hi SomBhattacharya,

  Please try the possible fix following first thanks to Carey Frisch:

  1. open the BIOS of the motherboard.
  2. find where it says Priority Boot Device, then select CD/DVD-ROM 1, 2nd Hard Drive and disable all the rest.
  3 find somewhere in the BIOS where it says BOOT USB, Wake on USB, etc. and disable all unnecessary options.

  And second if it does not help, you can try the following with Blue Michael:

  Local Geek Squad had me intentionally set the BIOS to the correct order, then re-order and SAVE.
  It worked, even if the list of the BIOS was always in the right order.

  I hope this helps!

• I'm finally upgrading to XP (SP3) to Win7. I have two hard drives on my computer.

  Can I move the files I want to save on the other hard drive and install Win7 on the main HD instead of buy an external HD as the instructions State?

  I have an old Dell XPS410 with 2 GB of RAM and two HDs. The only thing I use the other HD for storage is (I am an artist and musician). The idea of having to save this HD set is terrifying for me right now there are about 350 GB worth of songs made with reason and images and web graphics made with Photoshop. The last thing I want to do is lose this kind of things. The 2nd HD was added long after I initially bought the computer, and I have never re-installed the system since the 2nd HD has been added.

  A custom install of Win7 would also remove the info on the second HD?

  Thanks in advance for any help.

  Move your songs during the second drive unit. Then turn off the computer and unplug the data cable from the second drive unit. This will leave only the drive that you want to install Windows 7 on connected and nothing on the second disc will be safe.

  Custom installation (which is your only option when upgrading Windows XP will however require that you all you reinstall applications (including Photoshop), so locate all your installation media and product keys.)

  Here are some utilities, which will display your product keys:

  Belarc Advisor: http://www.belarc.com/free_download.html
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  However may not detect a key to office, then try one of the other two below)

  Also: http://www.magicaljellybean.com/keyfinder.shtml
  and: http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/product_cd_key_viewer.html

  Windows 7 system requirements: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/products/system-requirements
  1 gigahertz (GHz) or faster 32-bit (x 86) or 64-bit (x 64) processor
  1 gigabyte (GB) of RAM (32-bit) or 2 GB RAM (64-bit)
  16 GB of disk space available (32-bit) or 20 GB (64-bit)
  (Note: 16 GB is a strict minimum and unrealistic, suggests at least 32 GB or more)
  Graphical device DirectX 9 with WDDM 1.0 or higher driver

  Windows 7 Compatibility Checker
  http://www.Microsoft.com/Windows/compatibility/en-us/default.aspx

  Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor
  http://www.Microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=1b544e90-7659-4BD9-9e51-2497c146af15

  Windows XP to Windows 7 Migration Guide
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  Here are answers to some common questions about the 32-bit versions and 64-bit Windows.
  http://www.Microsoft.com/Windows/Windows-7/compare/32-bit-64-bit-FAQ.aspx

  Windows XP users have two options:
  1) begins with an upgrade in place to Windows Vista, followed an upgrade in place to Windows 7
  The key is that you need a Vista DVD. So if you have your old DVD of Vista, dust off it.
  Read the details here:
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  (2) the position of official Microsoft: Windows XP users must make a Clean/custom Setup.

  J W Stuart: http://www.pagestart.com

• Didn't have a lot of space on my main hard drive can I change the disk external usb in the primary drive?

  Please can you help me I am using windows xp sp3 and I have, nt enough space on my hard drive that I can change the external USB hard drive "which is more important" in my main drive?

  Please can you help me I am using windows xp sp3 and I have, nt enough space on my hard drive that I can change the external USB hard drive "which is more important" in my main drive?

  Physically?  Sure.  Without removing it from its holster and moving into the computer?  N °

  Buy a new internal drive for the computer - bigger than the current one.  Use the utility it gives with the purchase of most readers of detail (or download from the OEM drive manufacturers Web site) to clone the old smaller disk on the newest disc with much new spaces.  Fact.

  I suggest you do the following:

  Do a house cleaning and the dust of this hard drive:

  You can free up disk space (will also help get rid of the things that you do not use) through the following steps:

  Windows XP should take between 4.5 and 20 GB * with * an Office suite, editing Photo software, alternative Internet browser (s), various Internet plugins and a host of other things installed.

  If you are comfortable with the stability of your system, you can delete the uninstall of patches which has installed Windows XP...
  http://www3.TELUS.NET/dandemar/spack.htm
  (Especially of interest here - #4)
  (Variant: http://www.dougknox.com/xp/utils/xp_hotfix_backup.htm )

  You can run disk - integrated into Windows XP - cleanup to erase everything except your last restore point and yet more 'free '... files cleaning

  How to use disk cleanup
  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/310312

  You can disable hibernation if it is enabled and you do not...

  When you Hibernate your computer, Windows saves the contents of the system memory in the hiberfil.sys file. As a result, the size of the hiberfil.sys file will always be equal to the amount of physical memory in your system. If you don't use the Hibernate feature and want to reclaim the space used by Windows for the hiberfil.sys file, perform the following steps:

  -Start the Control Panel Power Options applet (go to start, settings, Control Panel, and then click Power Options).
  -Select the Hibernate tab, uncheck "Activate the hibernation", and then click OK. Although you might think otherwise, selecting never under "Hibernate" option on the power management tab does not delete the hiberfil.sys file.
  -Windows remove the "Hibernate" option on the power management tab and delete the hiberfil.sys file.

  You can control the amount of space your system restore can use...

  1. Click Start, right click my computer and then click Properties.
  2. click on the System Restore tab.
  3. highlight one of your readers (or C: If you only) and click on the button "settings".
  4 change the percentage of disk space you want to allow... I suggest moving the slider until you have about 1 GB (1024 MB or close to that...)
  5. click on OK. Then click OK again.

  You can control the amount of space used may or may not temporary Internet files...

  Empty the temporary Internet files and reduce the size, that it stores a size between 64 MB and 128 MB...

  -Open a copy of Microsoft Internet Explorer.
  -Select TOOLS - Internet Options.
  -On the general tab in the section 'Temporary Internet files', follow these steps:
  -Click on 'Delete the Cookies' (click OK)
  -Click on "Settings" and change the "amount of disk space to use: ' something between 64 MB and 128 MB. (There may be many more now.)
  -Click OK.
  -Click on 'Delete files', then select "Delete all offline content" (the box), and then click OK. (If you had a LOT, it can take 2 to 10 minutes or more).
  -Once it's done, click OK, close Internet Explorer, open Internet Explorer.

  You can use an application that scans your system for the log files and temporary files and use it to get rid of those who:

  CCleaner (free!)
  http://www.CCleaner.com/
  (just disk cleanup - do not play with the part of the registry for the moment)

  Other ways to free up space...

  SequoiaView
  http://www.win.Tue.nl/SequoiaView/

  JDiskReport
  http://www.jgoodies.com/freeware/JDiskReport/

  Those who can help you discover visually where all space is used. Then, you can determine what to do.

  After that - you want to check any physical errors and fix everything for efficient access"

  CHKDSK
  How to scan your disks for errors* will take time and a reboot.

  Defragment
  How to defragment your hard drives* will take time

  Cleaning the components of update on your Windows XP computer

  While probably not 100% necessary-, it is probably a good idea at this time to ensure that you continue to get the updates you need. This will help you ensure that your system update is ready to do it for you.

  Download and run the MSRT tool manually:
  http://www.Microsoft.com/security/malwareremove/default.mspx
  (Ignore the details and download the tool to download and save to your desktop, run it.)

  Reset.

  Download/install the latest program Windows installation (for your operating system):
  (Windows XP 32-bit: WindowsXP-KB942288-v3 - x 86 .exe )
  (Download and save it to your desktop, run it.)

  Reset.

  and...

  Download the latest version of Windows Update (x 86) agent here:
  http://go.Microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=91237
  ... and save it to the root of your C:\ drive. After you register on theroot of the C:\ drive, follow these steps:

  Close all Internet Explorer Windows and other applications.

  AutoScan--> RUN and type:
  %SystemDrive%\windowsupdateagent30-x86.exe /WUFORCE
  --> Click OK.

  (If asked, select 'Run'). --> Click on NEXT--> select 'I agree' and click NEXT--> where he completed the installation, click "Finish"...

  Reset.

  Now reset your Windows with this FixIt components update (you * NOT * use the aggressive version if requested):
  How to reset the Windows Update components?

  Reset.

  You're probably done with free space that you did not have before, and a little bit of a cleaner system.  If your hard drive is not ridiculously small or you use any products AutoDesk and Adobe on this computer - you should be able to free up enough space by moving * your * stuff.

• I have two hard drives. the second "E: drive" does not appear

  I can't not find my second hard drive

  Hi RichVaresi,

  For us to better help you with your concern, we need the following information:

  • It is an external drive or internal?
  • If it is an external drive, have you tried to connect to another port?

  You can also try running the steps of troubleshooting provided on this link:

  https://support.Microsoft.com/en-us/KB/330140.

  Do not hesitate to contact us if you need further assistance.

  Kind regards
  Gerdimae Sal