Hi
Walt,
this
should work fine. You might have to move jumpers on the old drive and plug it
into the slave part of the cable. If you are doing the install yourself, let me
know and I can give you some pointers.
rick
-----Original Message-----
From: Weber Walter M [mailto:Walter.M.Weber@irs.gov]
Sent: Friday, December 13, 2002 9:21 AM
To: 'BLINUX-LIST@REDHAT.COM'
Subject: Swapping hard drivesHi All,
I don't see anyway I'll be able to buy a PC next year for home use; so, I wonder whether this idea will work?
My wife has a PC at home, with Windows on it. Can I move the current hard drive to another drive bay and have a new hard drive installed in the original's place, having Linux installed on it plus a program launcher which offers the choice of booting up with Linux or Windows? If my wife chooses Windows, wouldn't the launching program boot from the old C drive which would now be given another letter? In other words, there's nothing on the current C drives which irrevocably mark them as C, is there?
Thanks,
Walt