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Installing more than one hard drive question?

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I would like to install two hard drives. One is a 200gb maxtor and the other a 160gb seagate. What would be the best way to do this? thanks.
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Re: Installing more than one hard drive question?

Hi,

Depends on the design of your intentions.

Do you want fault tolerance? Are they SCSI, IDE, SATA, MFM, RLL?

Please tell us more of how you intend to use them.

Thanks,

Christian
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Re: Installing more than one hard drive question?

One would be an sata the other a pata. I am not real familiar on how it works but I would like to make it easy to reinstall the os once a year or so when all slows down a little without a lot of reinstalling of software. Is that possible and how would it work?
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Re: Installing more than one hard drive question?

No, that's not possible. If you wipe the drive and install fresh then it doesn't matter where the install directory of your programs is, you still have to reinstall them, because the Registry entries related to the programs will be missing.
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