deathdellic Posted January 4, 2008 Share Posted January 4, 2008 I freshly Installed xp pro on my computer as I do every now and then. I didnt add anything extra to the install which i performed many times before(except a harddrive). I have 2 harddrives installed one is 500G and one is 160G they are both sata drives. I do not have raid turned on in the bios. upon completion of my new install i noticed that XP was using my second harddrive as the boot harddrive and was also mirroring system files etc to the backup harddrive and there are systems files etc in both hdd's . although this is wierd i would like to know what the heck is happening so i can replicate this effect again. here is an example of the files on the D:\>dir Volume in drive D is backup Volume Serial Number is 6666666 Directory of D:\ (backup)12/29/2007 11:40 AM <DIR> computer-software12/31/2007 02:59 PM <DIR> Documents and Settings12/31/2007 04:23 PM <DIR> Downloads12/29/2007 09:36 PM <DIR> driver-project12/26/2007 07:41 PM <DIR> Drivers12/30/2007 11:24 PM <DIR> games12/29/2007 09:33 PM <DIR> Linux-and-software12/29/2007 11:47 AM <DIR> mac cd's12/29/2007 12:08 PM <DIR> Movies12/31/2007 05:47 PM <DIR> My Documents12/29/2007 09:36 PM <DIR> My Music01/03/2008 09:46 AM <DIR> osx stuff01/02/2008 04:43 PM <DIR> Program Files01/02/2008 06:35 PM <DIR> WINDOWS12/30/2007 10:57 AM <DIR> windows cd12/31/2007 03:35 PM <DIR> xp64bit-programs 6 File(s) 55,173,745 bytes 23 Dir(s) 28,806,557,696 bytes freethats the backup and then there is my C:\ drive which is the errr normal part of the problem except that the computer runs from the D:\ drive....wierd Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nitroshift Posted January 4, 2008 Share Posted January 4, 2008 Hello and welcome to THE forum! I think that you didn't pay enough attention when you installed Windows and you selected your new hard-drive as the install location. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arie Posted January 4, 2008 Share Posted January 4, 2008 Or your first hard disk was not recognised during setup and Windows was therefore installed on your second hard disk, leaving the old installation on the first hard disk? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deathdellic Posted January 4, 2008 Author Share Posted January 4, 2008 the big disk was the installation disk it has 2 partitions on it and one is not used. the smaller disk is just a backup. when i installed my larger disk © was a fresh reformat so there was no installation already on it. the D drive also had no system related files on it before installation. now both HDD's contain system files, both of which are used by the system kind of like a clone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arie Posted January 4, 2008 Share Posted January 4, 2008 Then you must have RAID switched on in your BIOS, eventhough you state that it's not the case. Update to the latest BIOS and check all settings again. Also check your Windows settings if you haven't mirrored your drive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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