RE: Swapping hard drives

Weber Walter M <Walter.M.Weber@xxxxxxx> · Fri, 13 Dec 2002 09:50:41 -0500

Title: Swapping hard drives

Hi 
Rick,

Thanks 
a lot. I was hoping it would work. 

Walt

  -----Original Message-----
From: rick watson 
  [mailto:rick@oglevee.com]
Sent: Friday, December 13, 2002 9:15 
  AM
To: 'blinux-list@redhat.com'
Subject: RE: Swapping hard 
  drives

  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 drives

    Hi 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 