Adding extra HD to Server mini tower

You can do it either way, but I would move the drive first. Make sure the settings on the disks are correct.

If they're on the same cable then one should be a master and one should be a slave.

If on different cables, then they both can be masters.

Then boot to DOS and run fdisk on one of the disks, and using the Win98 CD, build the OS.

Its even easier if you're instlling Win2K or WinXP. You can simply boot with the CD and answer the questions re: partitioning and formatting as you go...

Hope this helps.
Cheers,
Tim.

You know, it really depends on just what you are setting up this server for. Will this machine run some production appliction that MUST NOT GO DOWN? Will it be a file server where every byte of space is needed? Will this be a place for development work and multiple operating systems for experimentation? Is this gonna be a public MP3 server (my favorite!)???
YOu have to decide on what this machine will be used for, and then you can make an informed decision on how you want to allocate drive space.
If you need a server that, if there is a hard drive failure, you can still use the machine, then I would do the OS install on the first physical disk, then set the other disk for mirroring (RAID 1).
If you need one big logicial partition so C: drive has the total drive space available from both physical drives, then set up a Spanned volume.
If you want the operating system on one drive, and you want a different drive to save your data files, then install C: drive on physical disk 1 and then set up the other physical disk as drive D:.
It won't matter to the operating system what type of disk allocation you use. Just make sure that it is the right disk allocation scheme for your needs.

Hello there,

As I can see this machine comes with 2 options, IDE Hard disks or SCSI, if you bought with SCSI and you defined an array you'll probably will have to configure and add this new hard disk to the array. If it is only and IDE just configure the jumpers, make it slave and the old hard disk as master. If you have Windows NT 4.0 you'll have to run Disk Administrator and create New Partition and format it. With Windows 2000 you'll have to go to Computer Managment, Storage then Disk Managment and build it as needed.

Good luck and Merry Christmas,

@lberto
alberto@pancarib.com