question about hard drives

mn9500

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I was thinking about buying another hard drive (a 1tb) to keep big files on, and other things that take up alot of space and basically all the games and programs, and then use my current hard drive (250 gb) to have the windows files on.

Im thinking about making a partition on the current hdd to multi boot with xp and windows 7 soon.

Is windows 7 going to give me any permission problems if i try to access the files on the hard drive im going to add? thanks.
 

My Computer

Computer Manufacturer/Model Number
HP
OS
XP
CPU
AMD Athlon 3500+ Venice Socket 939
Motherboard
MSI Albacore RS480
Memory
3 GB PC3200 DDR SDRAM
Graphics Card(s)
nVIDIA GeForce 9600GT 512MB
Sound Card
Realtek AC97
Monitor(s) Displays
HP vs17
Screen Resolution
1280x1024
Hard Drives
Seagate ST3250823AS 250 GB 7200 RPM SATA 8MB Cache
Samsung HD103SJ Spinpoint F3 1 TB 7200 RPM SATA 32MB Cache
PSU
Antec TruePower 500W
Keyboard
Standard HP Keyboard
Mouse
Logitech MX518
I was thinking about buying another hard drive (a 1tb) to keep big files on, and other things that take up alot of space and basically all the games and programs, and then use my current hard drive (250 gb) to have the windows files on.

Im thinking about making a partition on the current hdd to multi boot with xp and windows 7 soon.

Is windows 7 going to give me any permission problems if i try to access the files on the hard drive im going to add? thanks.

If the new HD is internal, probably not. If it is external, or a networked drive, there may be some issues, but they can be solved.
 

My Computer

Computer Manufacturer/Model Number
Gateway, Toshiba Laptop, and Home Brew
OS
Windows 7 x64 HP, Windows 7 HP, Windows 7 Ult
CPU
Intel I3, Cerelon, Pentium 4 @ 3Ghz
Motherboard
Intel, Intel, Asus
Memory
8G, 3G, 3G
Graphics Card(s)
On-board Intel, On-board nVidia, nVIDIA card
Sound Card
on-board, on-board, SoundBlaster
Monitor(s) Displays
Hannspree HF237, Toshiba, SyncMaster 931B
Screen Resolution
default (all)
Hard Drives
1T internal, 320G internal, 160G internal, 1T networked
PSU
300w, unk, 650w
Case
black, black, grey
Cooling
air (all)
Keyboard
standard wired (all)
Mouse
standard wired (all)
Internet Speed
6M down, 768K up
Other Info
Home LAN through Linksys hub to 4 port and wireless switch/router. Networked HP 2600n. Wife's computer running Windows 7, and spare laptop running Ubuntu "Karmic Kola" (9.10).
I was thinking about buying another hard drive (a 1tb) to keep big files on, and other things that take up alot of space and basically all the games and programs, and then use my current hard drive (250 gb) to have the windows files on.

Im thinking about making a partition on the current hdd to multi boot with xp and windows 7 soon.

Is windows 7 going to give me any permission problems if i try to access the files on the hard drive im going to add? thanks.

If the new HD is internal, probably not. If it is external, or a networked drive, there may be some issues, but they can be solved.
its going to be an internal sata hard drive.
 

My Computer

Computer Manufacturer/Model Number
HP
OS
XP
CPU
AMD Athlon 3500+ Venice Socket 939
Motherboard
MSI Albacore RS480
Memory
3 GB PC3200 DDR SDRAM
Graphics Card(s)
nVIDIA GeForce 9600GT 512MB
Sound Card
Realtek AC97
Monitor(s) Displays
HP vs17
Screen Resolution
1280x1024
Hard Drives
Seagate ST3250823AS 250 GB 7200 RPM SATA 8MB Cache
Samsung HD103SJ Spinpoint F3 1 TB 7200 RPM SATA 32MB Cache
PSU
Antec TruePower 500W
Keyboard
Standard HP Keyboard
Mouse
Logitech MX518
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