Re: Swapping Drives in XP
- From: "Brian A." <gonefish'n@afarawaylake>
- Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 04:39:43 -0500
"Ian" <Ian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:7E0DA032-F44E-49DD-82D0-E275DB0EC511@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
This doesn't usually happen. The most likely cause would be that the disks
were IDE, and incorrectly jumpered, i.e. two masters or two slaves on one
channel. If you do this any writes will go to both disks, with predictably
disastrous results.
I often double-up disks when rolling-out machines. If possible I put the
disks on separate IDE channels, as that avoids the possibility of this kind
of mishap. If I have to use the same channel I will jumper the disks (NOT
rely on cable-select) and double-check that the BIOS screen shows the disks
in the correct order before allowing the OS to boot.
It's all not of any relevance to me, I'm not the one that posted on the issue at hand. Perhaps your response may be of relevance to the OP even though it was mentioned that the drives were jumped properly.
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