Dream Machine

[Bruce A Thompson]

Not only can you not turn it off, but

It also is going to still be 85% full, and old. And any program he might use from that hard drive will still store data on that same drive. That means he is not creating any more room for his primary programs. He would just be adding a new drive that wouldn't be used much.

There is no way to increase the D,E,F, partition sizes when he wipes the C on the old drive without reformatting the drive and losing (or copying somewhere else) the data first. http://www.google.com/search?q=increasing+partition+size+in+xp&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a If he is going to do that, he should just partition the new drive three ways and ghost the three partitions over to it.

Then he is stuck with a new, great, drive and another old one with no room on it. Logic says, if he wants to slave it, then he should format it into a single, or double, partition drive and use it with his ZIP program to do backups only.

I do like the idea of putting the old drive into an external enclosure so he can turn it off when he isn't using it.