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  1. Ok, got my second hard drive installed as a slave, partitioned it and saved files that I wanted there.
    I have win xp home edition and did a recovery to what I thought would have been my primary HD, but when it got through it installed the factory shipped files onto my slave drive instead
    So I deleted all those files and reinstalled my favorite programs again on the slave HD . This time I was just doing a check so I disabled the slave HD in bios and rebooted to see if it was still being reconized and sure enough it was!

    This time I open the shell and unpluged the slave HD before doing the recovery and it worked so I had to shut down CPU again to plug the slave HD back in, set bios and restarted system and all is working ok.

    What am I doing wrong or is their a simplier way in the future to do this?
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  2. This time I open the shell and unpluged the slave HD before doing the recovery and it worked so I had to shut down CPU again to plug the slave HD back in, set bios and restarted system and all is working ok.

    What am I doing wrong or is their a simplier way in the future to do this?
    What is the problem exactly, windows is installing to the slave drive??
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  3. I did not want it to install anything onto this drive, I thought that recovery would only install recovery to primary as it did it the past but it would only install on slave after it was installed.

    Garibaldi, is it suppose to only on slave their after unless I do what I mentioned in previous post?

    I want it on primary only is what I was after if possible with slave still installed!!!
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    The simple solution is to only have the drive you want to install the operating system to plugged in.

    After windows is installed, plug in the other drive.
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    sounds like it might have assigned C: to your slave instead of your master. As bazooka says, just remove your slave, get everything installed, and just add the slave back when done.
    If in doubt, Google it.
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    Maybe the because the install process located an existing version of windows on your computer, it went around it and installed on the slave...

    Could be gnomes also... pesky little things...
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    Originally Posted by smearbrick1
    Could be gnomes also... pesky little things...
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  8. sounds like it might have assigned C: to your slave instead of your master. As bazooka says, just remove your slave, get everything installed, and just add the slave back when done.
    That sounds like the easiest way to do it, just plug the slave in after install.
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  9. Ok...thanx guys for the input.
    Learning is tuff at times but through perseverance and help thru others gets the job done.
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