That is not strictly true... there are a couple of master boot loaders which will allow you to boot from any drive on your system (though not the standard one created from installing windows)
On Nov 10, 8:35 pm, N3TS3cure <[email protected]> wrote: > If you hooked the older 2 into your system as slave drives to the new > one, you will NOT be able to boot into them at all. The only drive you > can boot from is the Master / Primary. > You would be able to access all the files, including the system files, > but booting is impossible. > > To access the files from the older drives, just boot into the new > drive and navigate into your old ones under My Computer. > > On Nov 10, 7:46 am, Dentist <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > If you have the new motherboard (computer) capable to hook the other > > two HDDs then you will have the three on the same system. > > > On Nov 10, 5:10 pm, Ceresia <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Linux is much more forgiving them windows as far as moving drives from > > > one machine to another. > > > > To keep all your data on either drive just reinstall the operating > > > system but keeping the file system in tact. Your program files, user > > > files, etc will be there, but the programs might not be installed 100% > > > or work correctly, but the data will be there... -- 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.
