It's come to the time where I need to do a clean install of my system. When I originally bought it, it came with one hard drive. Since then, I have purchased a second drive and installed it as a slave drive, for extra storage.
The drive is a Maxtor6L250R0 (250 gig drive). It came with MaxBlast 4 (if that means anything...)
The original drive is my C: drive and the new drive is my E: drive.
My operating system is windows xp media centre edition 2002 with service pack 2.
When I reinstall windows on my C: drive, will the data on my E: drive remain or do I need to back it up?
Also, will windows Xp: recognize the E: drive after the reinstall?
Thanks in advance,
dan
2006-11-17 07:54:53 · 4 answers · asked by Dan 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Other - Computers
yes it will detect ur e drive as it was previously. only the c drive will be formatted(if u choose to). you shouldnt loose ny files, only the programs will be lost
2006-11-17 08:04:09 · answer #1 · answered by slim 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-10-15 16:30:57 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you dont have anything to worry about. the files will still be there. Windows automatically assign names to drive in the order it discovers them. your drive letters may not remain the same, but it should not matter because your drive 'C' will be new and dontneed to search for files in specific areas. If you really need to rename your drives, try drive mapper, it comes with partition magic.
2006-11-17 08:13:24 · answer #3 · answered by dave 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
as long as you dont accadentaly format the other drive your good
2006-11-17 08:00:42 · answer #4 · answered by bsmith13421 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋