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Alvis

07-13-2004, 02:42 PM

I currently have a dual boot machine with Mandrake 10 on a 120 gig hard drive(primary) and Windows XP on a 40 gig hard drive(secondary). I want to take the 40 gig out(thus dumping Windows) and put in a 60 gig in its place. I want the new drive to hold my media files(calling it /media). How can I accomplish this? Will Mandrake recognize the drive when it boots up and ask what I want to do?

ph34r

07-13-2004, 02:55 PM

After making sure the bios recognizes it, you just need to partition it (fdisk /dev/hdb) and create 1 linux partition. Then format it (mkext2fs) and then edit /etc/fstab to mount it.

EnigmaOne

07-13-2004, 03:40 PM

Of course, you could always read: http://www.justlinux.com/nhf/Hardware/Adding_a_Hard_Drive_in_Linux.html

saikee

07-13-2004, 05:55 PM

A standard generic PC will come with two IDE channel each supporting a master and a slave. Thus 4 devices can be fitted. If you have used up one bay for the CD/DVD drive then you can keep your Windows hard disk in the system if you want.

The internal of a PC can takes about several 3.5" HDDs without much trouble.

Unless you don't want to keep Windows you can clone it into the 60Gb, resize it and keep it while freeing space for other activities.