ToCsIcK Posted March 4, 2006 Share Posted March 4, 2006 Hey, just a quick questionIf 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OtherworldBob Posted March 4, 2006 Share Posted March 4, 2006 I think it will wipe everything on both drives, and create one big C:\ drive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dumpy Dooby Posted March 5, 2006 Share Posted March 5, 2006 I would think it would only wipe out the first partition on the PM. But I'm not familiar with auto-partition ... so meh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sonic Posted March 5, 2006 Share Posted March 5, 2006 Test in vitrual machine, it's the best to know if your data will be kept. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blinkdt Posted March 5, 2006 Share Posted March 5, 2006 (edited) 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rnielsen151 Posted March 5, 2006 Share Posted March 5, 2006 unplug the 2nd drive as a fail safe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blinkdt Posted March 6, 2006 Share Posted March 6, 2006 (edited) 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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