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To: PMS Witch who wrote (74465)	3/6/2011 11:02:25 AM
From: Sexton O Blake	Read Replies (1) of 110626

Thanks for the "what it is" but do you happen to know anything about "why" they are doing this? I am searching in my brain for a reasoning for this. On a basic level, in theory if I connect an offline drive and do a CLONE copy, then during that cloning the offline would be assigned the same drive letter as the internal? Then somehow after I disconnect and reconnect the drives would have the same sig, so Windows 7 won't let you access the offline? (In theory using Acronis, that cloning [if it duplicated the drive letter to begin with] as per your comments in general, would automatically change the signature anyways). I am sort of standing back and saying - who cares? Who cares I have 2 drives that are 100% identical. I have one as "C:" and then map the other as "G:" and go on from there. Or any other drive. It seems like another convoluted system invented by Microsoft to force you to use tools or worse, forcing little old ladies to hire a techie to solve their disk signature collisions. To me a level of control that serves zero purpose. On the one hand we cannot connect two drives with the same sigs to the computer [zero purpose], yet I am sure there are a reams of people out there with the same "IDs" [big problem].

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