If there are any scripts or paths on the old drive which refer to the C: drive they will no longer work once that drive becomes the D: drive. Better to keep it as C: and just install your new drive as D: rudy On Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 09:14:50AM -0500, rick watson wrote: > > 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 _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list