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To: PMS Witch who wrote (74470)	3/7/2011 9:47:22 AM
From: Sexton O Blake	Respond to of 110626

Thanks. I would tend to lean toward your "one solution fits all" approach." At the basic CPU level, makes zero sense but at a big picture level - looking at all the possibilities it does make sense. Years ago, before SATA really started, one could buy a CADDY and cold swap in/out drives. Well I didn't have that but once I was doing some work and flipped drives out/in. I cannot remember all of what happened except that, there were issues and I felt the BIOS got confused. I panicked a bit (well 4x120GB ... you sort of have to) - I powered down and after talking with a friend I ended up putting known C in first, then powering up. Then shutting down, adding the 2nd drive - power up/down. Third etc. (never actually getting into Windows). Everything was solved. Odd situation and never happened after but there was an issue. Nowadays they sell those little external plug in devices - where you can buy a bare SATA and just hot plug it onto the device. And something like that would apply to your comments. Thanks Witch.