i know how to reformat a hard drive. Im carious on how i can reformat a secondary hard drive. Ive only formatted one being plugged it so i don't know how to do it to a slave/secondary. The other hard drive does have windows 7 installed on it. as it is my older hard drive that had a few issues, i hope to fix by reformatting it. Would i need to only have that hard drive in and boot off the windows 7 re install disk. and would the secondary drive be registered a different letter or would i have to manually set the letter?
Um, sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but it doesn't work like that....
You can't simply take an-already-installed Windows OS and move it to a different computer. Whether you know it or not, there are a LOT of differences even between two identical sets of hardware, in fact. (To whit: The drive and Windows serial numbers....)
You could TRY to make the swap, and eventually force it to become SIMILAR to what either of the originals were like, but there is pretty-much no way to make what you'd get to be IDENTICAL to one or the other, and you'd have little power over whatever Windows chose to do in order to generate the resultant drive & OS while trying to make sense of the combination.
Now if you're simply planning on trying to use the second drive as a "new copy" of you original drive, sure, you can wipe the old drive and clone the original drive onto the secondary drive and make use of IT ALONE (not the two in one system, unless you fiddle with a few things to straighten out which OS is which!)
Also, no matter what you do you'll need to make sure that whichever OS instance you choose to use that you keep
that drive's serial number to match, or Windows will complain that it's not a registered version....
