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General Question(s) About Hard Drives.
So my puny little 200gb hard drive that I had from way back in the day is starting to run low on space... I only have 37gb of memory left, which is a lot - but I want a fail safe. I am going to use this opportunity as an excuse to pick up two 1TB WD Caviar Blacks.
As of right now I don't have the time to reformat my computer because of school so for now I am going to use these are secondary storage drives until winter break where I have the time to format... I never really dealt with adding in additional hard drives so bear with me as I have these questions.
1) When I get the two new drives, do I just hook up my SATA/power wires, boot up my computer, then just format them via My Computer?
2) When I get the time to reformat I want to use one of the Caviar Blacks as my primary drive. So can I just put all of my files (music, pictures, documents, etc) on the other caviar black and format my other two drives to clear them?
I'd like to elaborate on question number two by saying exactly what I want to do...
I would take all of my files and put them on one caviar black as storage. Then I would go to install windows and reformat the other caviar black to be my main drive with windows on it. Once windows is installed I would format my 200gb drive that currently has windows and everything on it to clear it and keep it as a storage drive. The other caviar black would just stay untouched with all of my files saved on it. Would this plan of action work?