Matt.....he will use USB..the computer will be booted in windows already. When you plug the external harddrive, you will get a new assigned letters, most commonly, F: and G: (since the CD will be E:). now mostly your external's C: will become F: you can drag what ever data you want to, and then make a diagnostic on it, it could help lots.
On Oct 19, 3:18 pm, RemyMaza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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, > Mattwww.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- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
