reformatting slave drive

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I read the other thread on reformatting your hd, and it reminded me about a similair but different case.

I recently stuck in my computer a Hd from and old comp (40 gigs) and it is currently the slave drive. The drive has two partitions on it, ones 39 gigs, and the other is like 1 ( i ahve no idea why.)

do i need to do anything special when I reformat this drive? it will only be used for extra storage of media and the such, doubt i will ever install any progs or anything.

I mean currently, it still has the other version of windows and the such still on it, and I don't think there is a point to having two hd's with two different versions of windows in the same desktop (at least in my case).

so yeah, just do the whole drive:/reformat thing? or special circumstances for a slave drive?

 

[sinkoman]

That 1gig partition was probably for windows format files. Allot of PC manufacturers make a small FAT32 partition containing all the programs that your PC came preloaded with, so next time you format, your pc has all that junk it had when you bought it.

I'm not positive, but i'm pretty sure that you'll just have to highlight the largest partition, right click it, and then select Format... I too had to do this once, but I forget the exact procedure