Uninstalling a hard drive

Gas Panic! · 29 Oct 2006 at 21:20

Hi peeps,

I installed a new 320Gb Seagate 7200.10 last week as my new data drive - it was replacing an old 7200.7 IDE drive. I simply plugged the new one in, copied stuff from the old one to the new one, and then removed the old drive after shutting down.

However, I've been getting a few System Restore error messages in Event Viewer - it says it has a problem on Hard Disk Volume 2. This is incorrect as I only have two drives - data drive (0) and main OS drive (1).

Is there a method to uninstalling drives from the system? Can I just plug the old one back in and then uninstall it or something?

Thanks for any help received.

semi-pro waster · 30 Oct 2006 at 00:45

I'm not sure if I am missing something here but if you want to start using the old hard drive again it is as simple as just plugging it in and you can remove the new one.

At a guess it was referring to the drive being hard drive vol 2 because you had the old hard drive plugged in as well when it was created.

Gas Panic! · 30 Oct 2006 at 10:09

Hi, apologies if I wasn't clear enough. I don't want to use the old drive at all, that's why I bought a new one. Basically, I didn't do anything to uninstall it from the system - I just pulled it out. Should I have uninstalled it first, say from Device Manager?

Cheers.

semi-pro waster · 30 Oct 2006 at 10:35

Ok I understand now and nope there is nothing extra you should need to do aside from removing the drive from the system(I've done it several times on various PCs with no ill effects). If you feel up to the hassle then you could always reinstall Windows onto the new hard drive to see if that sorts the problem, if you are going to do this I'd suggest just making sure that the new hard drive is connected then once everything is correctly installed re-connecting the old hard drive to copy across whatever you need.

Gas Panic! · 30 Oct 2006 at 15:34

I'll just leave it I think... and continue to monitor it.

Thanks for your help.