I installed a new HD and cloned my old one. The old HD is now the slave and everything works fine (OS is Win 2k). (1) I now want to remove everything on the slave drive. Will reformatting it work OK without affecting it being recognized? (2) Also, on start up I have the choice of drive to boot up on. Will reformating get rid of this or do I have to do something in addition.
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How best to clean up an old drive that was cloned?
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Yes, you can format in in 2k (using disk management or just right clicking on the drive), shouldn't cause any problems (as you cloned - so the new drive has a proper 2k boot sector), and will still be recognised as same drive letter (unless you change this yourself).
If you've got choice of drive to boot to, did you set that up (or was it function of the cloning mechanism)? You need to edit the boot.ini file in root of C: (usually hidden, system, read only file) to remove the entry for the second drive.
PS. In case of accidents, you can make a 2k boot floppy, by copying ntldr, ntdetect.com and boot.ini to a newly formatted floppy. This will boot your 2k installation if the hard drive boot sector gets damaged of removed.
If you've got choice of drive to boot to, did you set that up (or was it function of the cloning mechanism)? You need to edit the boot.ini file in root of C: (usually hidden, system, read only file) to remove the entry for the second drive.
PS. In case of accidents, you can make a 2k boot floppy, by copying ntldr, ntdetect.com and boot.ini to a newly formatted floppy. This will boot your 2k installation if the hard drive boot sector gets damaged of removed.
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