Using the second hard drive in my G5

I bought my Mac about 14 months ago with twin 250GB hard drives fitted. I wanted to use the second hard drive to store my CD collection through itunes.
I have tried to install itunes on the second hard drive but the software installer says it has to go on the startup volume. I have also tried copying my itunes folder and pasting it to the second hard drive as a backup but it won't allow this either. It says that the drive cannot be modified.
How do I use the second hard drive as intended? I upgraded to Tiger so do I need to install that on the second hard drive?
Thank you.

Hi Mike;
I have a 250 GB and a 160 GB hard drive in my Quad. A long time ago when I had much smaller drives, I did move Users to another disk because I was running out of space on my system drive. One of the problems I ran into with this was when my second drive with Users on it didn't start quickly enough for OS X. OS X created a new Users for me with nothing in it. It was a royal pain getting my system pointed back to the Users on the second drive.
What I do now is leave Users where OS X installs. I now move just my project files, music, photos and web pages. I find that this is largest part of Users. It is also the part of Users that I am the most concerned about. With all of my project files on another drive, the system is able to access data from both drives very quickly. It also makes backup simpler.
Allan

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Hi,
Unfortunately there is no option to be able to boot from the HDD in the 2nd bay in any of the dv7 series - sorry for the bad news.
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