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Hi,
I decided to give the installation a go by myself, figuring that if I
messed it up, I could just abort and wait until my friend could be
here to hold my hand. Here's the story so far (I'm pretty sleepy, so
I hope I get this right)...
I have two separate hard drives on this machine. The first drive (C:\)
is where I have Windows installed (80 GB drive). The second drive
(D:\) is where I want to install Mandrake (20 GB drive). The second
drive is from my old computer, and I no longer need the data that is
on it. Earlier today, I ran a check on the disk, and defragmented it.
So...
I read through much of the starter guide, but it didn't seem to
mention the idea of installing on one of two hard drives. It seemed to
assume that there would only be one hard drive to deal with on the
machine. I decided to start up the installation to see if it would
detect both drives, and give me a choice. I got to the "partitioning"
section, and decided to abort the installation, because something
worried me. I hope you can help...
I was told by Dale Huckeby, in this message:
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...that the installation program, near the beginning, should detect
both drives, so I could then choose the one to install onto. However,
when I got to the partitioning section (and still no choice of drives
yet), I was faced with three options under the "DrakX partitioning
wizard found the following solutions" section:
[] Erase entire disk
[] Use the free space on the Windows partition
[] Custom disk partitioning
I was afraid to choose any of these and hit <next> without knowing
*which* hard drive I'm dealing with. I can't afford to erase the drive
that Windows is currently occupying, and I don't want to install
Mandrake onto that drive anyway. At this point, I shut down the
computer (only way I could find to abort the installation), and as it
was re-booting, I removed the CD so that it would just boot into
Windows.
Question(s):
1) Did I just not yet get to the bit about choosing which hard drive
to install onto? In the starter guide, the *next* screen that's
supposed to show up *looks like* where I choose the hard drive
("choose the partitions to be formatted"), but it doesn't mention
"hard drive"...only "partitions"...so I'm a little confused here.
2) If so, which of the three choices mentioned above should I select?
(if the next screen mentioned above *is* where I choose the hard
drive, I suppose I should choose "Erase entire disk", right?)
Or...
3) Are the three choices mentioned above an indication that only one
hard drive was detected? (and I don't know which one, but I'm
assuming it's the one with Windows on it, since it's offering to
"use free space on the Windows partition")
4) If so, it would seem that it's not allowing me the choice of hard
drives, right?
5) At this point, what should I do?
Thanks!
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Melissa
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