internal drives should be able to swap around but external drives were not
designed to run an operating system(so i'm told) so here may cause a
problem. also when drives are added for memory they don't have an operating
system on them, if this is made into your primary drive and bios is set-up
to run this primary drive first again there lies a problem. is my thinking
on the right track? feel free to correct me if not or steer me in the proper
lane. thanx

On 3/17/09, David Nager <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> So If I Ghost my C drive to a USB Drive and Ghost My G Drive to another USB
> Drive I can Switch the content around between the two dives and go into
> Computer Management and switch the designated drive letters around and the
> machine should work fine and everyone is happy ?
>
> Dave
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Personal Computer Hardware discussion List
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Russ Poffenberger
> Sent: Monday, March 16, 2009 2:55 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] Hard drive help-round 2
>
>
> David,
>
> Yes, even with IDE, the BIOS typically controls which devices it sees,
> and sets the boot order. Note that the boot order only sets the order
> the BIOS searches for a valid boot device. It does not set any drive
> letter mapping in XP.
>
> SATA is just a different interface for the disk to connect to the
> controller (usually on the MB). Aside from this, there is really no
> difference between IDE and SATA.
>
> In XP, the disk management utility can be used to set the actual drive
> letters on the drives.
>
> Russ Poffenberger
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>
> David Nager wrote:
> > Hi Russ,
> > So it's all set in bios / Computer Management with XP ie. Which drive
> > it boots from and drive letters ? Dave
> >
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> > David Nager
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> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Personal Computer Hardware discussion List
> > [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Russ Poffenberger
> > Sent: Monday, March 16, 2009 1:53 PM
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] Hard drive help-round 2
> >
> >
> > Hi David,
> >
> > No, master/slave does not apply to SATA drives. SATA are strictly one
> > connector, one drive, there is no way to daisy chain them.
> >
> > Russ Poffenberger
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