add another hard disk.

[adarsh.ist]

currently i am running on a 40gb hdd, with 20 to suse and 20 to windows. i would like to add another 80.
is that difficult to do ?

[peteh]

Do you mean difficult to connect to the motherboard or difficult to configure once connected?
Both are fairly easy. Which version of suse?

[devils casper]

Just plug-in new disk. Windows OS will detect it and assign drive letters but you have to mount partitions in SuSe manually.

[adarsh.ist]

can you tell me how to ?
partition the 20 gb in windows. then leave the next 20 as free space ? and then what to do ?

also can i do it starting with linux. like having enough for linux and leaving the remaining available space to linux ?

pls tel me separately or i'll confuse

[adarsh.ist]

also i use ide. can i use sata without any change of board or any difficulty ? and if yes can it give the sata performance ?

[njuguna]

Yes you can but that calls for a total overhaul of your systems(the O.S.s I mean...)Xaracteristically, SATA hard drives are given preference based on a manufacturer's CMOS settings.

What u do is install suse in the sata hard drive, but you must change the boot sequence of the devices in your CMOS(for entry, see your motherboard manual) such that the computer starts with the IDE then SATA for the hdds. This is coz the bootloader/GRUB is installed in the slave disk which in this case is IDE hdd.
That's what I did.

All the best...(just make sure you do the obvious...backup data!)

[gogalthorp]

After you have the Windows partition go to Yast and create a Linux partition. You can then mount it

Create or use an exiting directory as a mount point. You can type man mount to see the mount commands parameters.

To make the mount permanent you will need to add the mount to the /etc/fstab file. You can do this via Yast or by hand.