Steve,
Yes, you should be able to remove the E drive from the system, but be
sure you rejumper the other HD to be the only HD in the system or use
Cable Select (CS)setting.
-- 
Craig A. Heichel


On 9/19/05, Stephen R Stanfield <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Hello All,  first of all i don't know where subject line went, but not the
> the topic of this query. a few months ago i installed an 80 gb hd on pc.
> old hd was showing signs of failure and was advised by this forum to install
> new hd and how.  installed new hd and left old hd as slave after copying
> data to new hd.  all was well until last week when computer locked up. upon
> re-booting, red screen with 'hard drive not found'  i turned it off and let
> it sit for a few hours and pc booted just fine. then messages started
> popping up from security shield-Windows-Delayed Write Failed    Windows was
> unable to save all the data for the file E:.  The data has been lost.  This
> error may be caused by a failure of your computer hardware or network
> connection.  Please try to save this file elsewhere.
> 
> my hd is partioned into two drives. C and D  with E being old drive.  Can I
> physically remove old hd and resolve problem?
> 
> Windows XP Home sp2
> 1.73gh AMD Athlon XP
> 1024 Mb ram
> 
> thanx
> stephen r stanfield
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