Can i able to partition the second Hard disk wthout affecting the first hard disk?

Question

I have two hard disk on my system.I have installed XP in first Hard disk and i am using it.I have one more Hard disk which i want to attach to my PC, format it and i want to Install Sun Solaris? How can i do this without affecting the First Hard disk?

Please explain me the steps ,how to do?Can i do formatting,partioning and installing in second hard disk independent of the first hard disk?

Answer 1

yes!

Answer 2

Go to My Computer, right-click on the second hard disk, click on Format, choose NTFS then Full Format the click OK.. Then restart your computer, insert the Sun Solaris CD, follow the steps to format, partition and install on the drive of your choice.

Answer 3

As long as you do not make any changes to the hard drive that has XP on it, you wont have any problems with it.

I recomend formatting the hard drive that DOESNT have XP on it

if your just going to install Solaris to the 2nd hard drive theres no reason to partition it

(1) Just format drive 2

(2)Install Solaris

(3) MAKE SURE YOU DONT INSTALL SOLARIS ON THE HARD DRIVE THAT HAS XP

- If you need any more help im me, [e-mail] (supergeek :-)

Answer 4

Right click on MY COMPUTER ,then click on MANAGE,then click on DISK MANAGEMENT.
ALSO :
To create a partition or logical drive
Using the Windows interface

Open Computer Management (Local).
In the console tree, click Disk Management.
Where?

Computer Management (Local)
Storage
Disk Management

Right-click an unallocated region of a basic disk, and then click New Partition, or right-click free space in an extended partition, and then click New Logical Drive.
In the New Partition Wizard, click Next, click Primary partition, Extended partition, or Logical drive, and then follow the instructions on your screen.
Notes

To open Computer Management, click Start, and then click Control Panel. Click Performance and Maintenance, click Administrative Tools, and then double-click Computer Management.
You must be logged on as an administrator or a member of the Administrators group in order to complete this procedure. If your computer is connected to a network, network policy settings might also prevent you from completing this procedure.
You can create up to four primary partitions, or three primary partitions and one extended partition.

Answer 5

Hi, As far as my knowledge goes you can. When u want to want to format the second hard disk. change the jumper settings on back of your hard disk to MASTER and the first hard disk to SLAVE. so when you place your XP bootable or Sun Solaris Bootable. Its directly by default will be saved in your MASTER HDD. Simply Man.

Answer 6

I'm not familiar with Solaris or it's boot-up procedures, but you should be fine as long as you only format and f-disk the second drive. Beware of the second OS overwriting the boot sector, as that might prevent Windows from loading if not configured properly.

See this link for more info: http://michael.gasperi.priv.at/documents/solaris-9-dual-boot-with-windows-xp

Edit: Ah, someone beat me to the link. Yeah, that tells you how to get it done. :)

Answer 7

These gentlemen are right but from personal experience pull the power plug out from the first one I tried to install suse on a second hard drive like u mentioned by I dont know how and why my master hard drive(windows 64) got corrupted.

Answer 8

Yes you can partition the second hard disk without affecting the first one. The following site documents on how to perform your dual boot installation.

Answer 9

you could format the irritating disk as quickly as in a Month.Dont format 3 or 5 cases in a Month. in case you format 3 or 5 cases it won't smash your annoying disk, inspite of the incontrovertible fact that it is going to shrink existence of the irritating disk.

Answer 10

start>settings>control panel>administrative tools>computer management>storage>disk management from there you can format your 2nd drive and partition it if you wish and even change the drive letter FYI thats in classic view

Answer 11

Sure thing.. for no further complications and to ease you up, just use your windows XP cd to create the desired partition.