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    Registered User MisterCJ@gci.net's Avatar
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    Old Hard drive,

    My Old hard drive waas getting to full. So I put a biger one in. No problems, but in deciding to use my old hard drive as a external drive, each time I try to access it the ol XP trys torun and maks a mess and will not act as a external hard drive. I can replace it in the computer but if I try to delte it it "is in use " and will not delete it. any ideas on how to delete the old drive XP so I may use it as a external drive? Thanks.

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    Is there anything on it that you need to save? If not, I would put it in the machine by itself and boot it up with a Win98 boot disk and fdisk / format it.
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