If you delete the partition then ALL information on that partition will be gone. Which means, if you only have one partition on the drive then all the info on the drive is gone. Yes, you can do what you want. Make sure however, that if you want the smaller drive to run the operating system that you make it the master drive.

Thanks DoubleDaffy!

 

Now there's another thing read about reinstalling the OS.

 

Since I have a RAID controller in my pc (which I don't use, isn't it RAID0 then?) I need to install via floppy the Intel Chipset Driver during the OS install procedure. But how do you do that if you don't have a floppydrive??

 

Thanks!

 

King Q

That, I cannot answer for your. You might, however, try asking "shesagordie" -Harddrives are her thing.

You are NOT obligated to install the RAID Controller during the OS Build.  Once you hit Windows it will say it has found new Hardware, you can either install it then via CD or not at all.  Doesn't either improve nor render the system useless if not installed.

 

I have had to an a USB Floppy Drive to my collection. Cost about $35.00