Hey, just a quick question

If i have two HDD's and i autopartition will it format both of my HDD's or just the master one. I dont wanna risk losing all my stuff on my second one so ive been pulling it out each time

Thanks in advanced

I think it will wipe everything on both drives, and create one big C:\ drive.

I would think it would only wipe out the first partition on the PM. But I'm not familiar with auto-partition ... so meh.

Test in vitrual machine, it's the best to know if your data will be kept.

It will only autopartition one hard drive, the drive jumpered as master (primary). Any partition(s) on that drive will be toast.

I think it will wipe everything on both drives, and create one big C:\ drive.

?!?! Where did that come from? You're going to need to create a RAID array via other mechanisms.

Edited March 5, 200620 yr by blinkdt

unplug the 2nd drive as a fail safe.

unplug the 2nd drive as a fail safe.

No need, save yourself the scraped knuckles. Jumper drives as primary/secondary or cable select, set winnt.sif to AutoPartition=1 and Repartition=Yes. Throw in FileSystem=ConvertNTFS for good measure. That's it, that's all. Primary alone is scrubbed, the other hard drive is untouched.

Edited March 6, 200620 yr by blinkdt