Basic OS question

[anken]

I'm planning to add another smaller HDD to our desktop PC and use it as a slave drive.
Question:
Do I have to install WinXP Home on the slave drive also?

[Uncle Bob]

No

[teengeek88]

no you do not.... you will have to format the drive from windows... do you know how to do that?

[I2n0ld]

if ure using it to have more disk space for the first drive that have win xp then no, u dont need to install win xp again.

[anken]

I have formatted the drive before using the DOS command.
In fact, it still has Win98 SE on it.
To format in Windows I guess I select the drive, right click and choose "format"?

Can I use it then without the OS installed
on it for back-ups AND other applications?

[anken]

Thanks 12nOld. I didn't see your post before my last reply.

[teengeek88]

yes you can and that is how you do it..... it will just be a different drive letter such as e:/ or something tho but you should have no problems...and if ya do, youve always got TechIMO

[anken]

Thanks teengeek88 !
I'm sure grateful to have TechIMO for help.

[Bill in SD, CA]

If you want to format the drive after you properly install the drive and boot up:

"Right" click My Computer > "Left" click Manage > select Disk Management > select the new drive (probably disk 1 not 0) > "Right" click and select Format.

Bill

[anken]

Thank you for the info.!