master and slave h/d

ok, some of u may know i just posted a question bout a new maxtor 80gig with 8mb buffer. i want to use this as my master and have my old 20gig seagate wiped and have it as a slave. i will put the 80 gig in tonight as it only came through the mail today. i'll back up everything then will want to wipe my 20gig and reformat it - HOW?!

 

How to reformat it is that the question? Usually you can do that during the windows install (2000, XP) There will be a partition manager you can choose where to nstall windows on and you can move partitions around then it will format the one windows goes on. After windows is installed you can format the other one using explorer right click menu.

 

ok cheers, now i currently have 2 partitions on my 20gb h/d. i'd like to make that one but whenever i've tried in win setup it wont let me delete the other one and have!!!!

 

after you install windows, go to start/run and type in "diskmgmt.msc" (w/o quotes) and... just play around with the 20 gig.

 

Hook the 80gig up as master w/o slave, then install windows. Now once windows is installed adn u gotta all the latest updates. Hook up ur slave and windows should detect it. goto my comp, Right click and Reformat it "THIS WILL DELETED EVERYTHING ON IT" but u will be able to save stuff on it or install ur games etc.