Re: Additional hard drive


"Timothy Daniels" <TDaniels@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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A bootable HD is most convenient as you can keep a
bootable spare copy of the entire OS and files on that HD
as backup in case the primary HD fails. If the new HD is
a SATA drive, you have the added option of using it as an
external drive that is bootable.

Here is Kingwin's external enclosure with an eSATA cable:
http://kingwin.com/jt35eubk.asp . If your computer doesn't
have an eSATA connector on the back, you can get adapter
brackets from this place:
http://www.firewire-1394.com/external-sata-solutions.htm

*TimDaniels*

"Luminore" wrote:
what is more preferable to use additional hard drive,
for old PC(support USB 1.1), install it this HDD as
second hard drive, or as External HDD (HDD mobile rack)?
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I will install second internal HD.
MB is with embedded Ultra DMA-100 PCI IDE controller, and MB supports two
IDE ports up to 4 ATAPI devices. I want set new HDD as primary and old HDD
as secondary, so new HDD need be set as Master and old as Slave? I need
install new OS on new HDD(via booting from CD), need I change something in
BIOS, or system will boot this Master HDD as first Boot Device and there is
no necessity to change anything in BIOS?

.

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