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drvarunmehta · 07-06-2009, 12:14 AM

Assuming you don't know which drive you are booting from since XP is installed on both, just go the 'My Computer' and right click on the partition of the IDE drive that has XP installed and choose to format it. If the PC has booted from the IDE drive, it will refuse to format it (since Windows is currently using it).
But if the PC has booted form the SATA, it will get formatted.

Similarly format all the partitions of the IDE drive.

Now go to 'Administrative Tools' --> 'Computer Management' --> 'Disk Management'.

Delete all the partitions of the IDE HDD.

You will now see the entire IDE drive as unused space.

Choose to make as many new partitions of whatever size you want, from that free space.

To make space for Win7 on the SATA drive use a software like Paragon Hard Disk Manager 8.5 SE or EASEUS Partition Master (Home Edition).

07-06-2009, 12:14 AM	#6 (permalink)
drvarunmehta Wise Old Owl Join Date: Nov 2004 Posts: 1,534	Re: Two hard Drive same OS on both ?? Assuming you don't know which drive you are booting from since XP is installed on both, just go the 'My Computer' and right click on the partition of the IDE drive that has XP installed and choose to format it. If the PC has booted from the IDE drive, it will refuse to format it (since Windows is currently using it). But if the PC has booted form the SATA, it will get formatted. Similarly format all the partitions of the IDE drive. Now go to 'Administrative Tools' --> 'Computer Management' --> 'Disk Management'. Delete all the partitions of the IDE HDD. You will now see the entire IDE drive as unused space. Choose to make as many new partitions of whatever size you want, from that free space. To make space for Win7 on the SATA drive use a software like Paragon Hard Disk Manager 8.5 SE or EASEUS Partition Master (Home Edition). Last edited by drvarunmehta; 07-06-2009 at 12:21 AM.