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Pastimes : Dream Machine ( Build your own PC ) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Nemer who wrote (6960)	4/8/1999 2:12:00 AM
From: Zeuspaul	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

Unless something is different than I know, I can't forsee any problem in a simple removal from the system because when a boot would happen without the drive being present, the only difficulty would be that Windows would notify that drive "e" was not present or not responding but one could just continue on without difficulty ..... is that correct ? I believe there is more to it than that. My IBM harddrives have one jumper setting if the drive is the only drive on the IDE channel..ie a jumper setting for master and no slave present. There is a different jumper setting if there is a slave drive present. I do not know what happens if the master is jumpered incorrectly. It is an issue as to how the dries work together..not a Windows/OS issue. Let us know how your tests work out. One option would be to jumper both drives as master and then install them on separate IDE channels. An external box attached to an internal IDE cable should work..just a bit awkward dealing with the cabling issue. Assuming two harddrives and a CDROM..the harddrives will be C and D and the CDROM will be 'E'. When the second harddrive is removed the CDROM will revert to D. You can map the CDROM to E so that it will not change when you remove the harddrive. Zeuspaul