Hi Rudy,
Good point! But, if I do that (and that sounds like the wisest path), I couldn't have a dual booting program, could I/
Unless, maybe, say, the machine boots to Windows and, then, somehow, I can switch to the D: drive, I can clean the memory and boot to Linux. Is that possible?
Walt
-----Original Message-----
From: A. R. Vener [mailto:salt@aero-vision.com]
Sent: Friday, December 13, 2002 10:06 AM
To: blinux-list@redhat.com
Subject: Re: Swapping hard drives
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
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