Buckeye Novice wrote:

> After buying a new computer with XP Professional on it, I then added
> my old hard drive as an external. It comes up as "Local Drive". The
> old drive had XP Home previously installed.
>
> I have not had any conflicts, but should I re-format the old hard
> drive or leave matters as is ?


It depends on what you want to it for. If it has a copy of XP Home on it
which you're not going to use, at the very least, you're wasting all the
disk space XP Home takes takes. So you might *want* to format it.


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