Auto Partition

[ToCsIcK]

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

[OtherworldBob]

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

[Dumpy Dooby]

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

[Sonic]

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

[blinkdt]

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, 2006 by blinkdt

[rnielsen151]

unplug the 2nd drive as a fail safe.

[blinkdt]

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, 2006 by blinkdt