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    Making use of my old hard drive

    Hi ive bought a new 200gig sata samsung spinpoint hdd which i want to use as the main (master) drive in my computer ive also got my old maxtor 80gig ide hard drive which i am planning to use for dumping all my downloads / music onto it , how do i make this hard drive into a mass storage drive? a friend of mine has done it but hes away on holiday so i cant ask him about how he did it at ze mo .

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    • oralpain's system
      • Motherboard:
      • DFI "Blood Iron" P35-T2RL
      • CPU:
      • Intel Pentium E2140 @ 400x8 (3.2GHz), 1.375v
      • Memory:
      • Crucial Ballistix DDR2 800 CL4 @ 500MHz (DDR 1000), 4-4-4-12-T2, 2.3v
      • Storage:
      • 2x Seagate ST3250410AS
      • Graphics card(s):
      • NVIDIA 8800GTS (G92) 512 @ 783MHz core, 1836MHz shader, 1053Mhz memory, stock cooling 70% fan speed
      • PSU:
      • Seasonic SS-500GB
      • Case:
      • Antec P182, with some small modifications
      • Monitor(s):
      • ASUS VW222U
      • Internet:
      • Time Warner "Road Runner" Cable - 16 megabit downstream, 1 megabit upstream
    Install the SATA drive, set it to boot befoer the old drive and then instlal windows and all of your stuff on it.

    Leave the old drive intalled, repartition it, format it, then just use it. Set defalt doanload locationsa s such to the new drive if you so choose.

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    thanks a lot :-).

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