You wont get a drive letter conflict. If you do, you can easily manage the drive letter itself and change that to whatever you like. For your scenario, you can use master and slave on the usb. That will keep the drives in order for the bios to recognize what you want to boot first.
Regards, Matt www.crossloop.com/matthewbramer On Oct 17, 5:56 am, Juve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi, > > I suspect my MSI mobo (MS-6330 ATX) has died or the Award bios does > not work, although I have tried to update it online through the MSI > Live Update Series. The reason why I believe this is so is that I when > get BSOD (which happens much too frequently) and I restart the > computer by pushing the reset button, I notice that BIOS does not > detect the harddrive. On the other hand, when I perform a cold start > the harddrive is recognized and the computer works fine for a while. > > I have decided to dismount the harddrive which I believe is healthy > enough, to try and save some of the data on it. What I want to do is > to run it as an external disk and connect it via USB to another > computer that I have. My only worry is that there might be a drive > letter conflict. > > The computer I want to connect the dismounted harddisk to has got one > drive with a C: partition and a D: partition. As usual the system is > on C: and data on D: > > The dismounted harddrive has also got two partitions C: and D: only on > this drive the system is on D: and the data is on C: Why the system > got on D: I don't know, but it happened after I reinstalled windows on > the computer with the faulty mobo. > > My question is, will this scenario cause a drive letter conflict? > Another thing, what about jumper settings? Both harddrives are set to > cable select, is that ok? or does jumper setting not apply to external > harddrives? I hope someone would be kind enough to answer this posting > to relieve me of my worries.Thanks. > > Oivind --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Computer Tech Support" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/computer-tech-support?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
