A computer, intelligent, friend of mine has been educating me of swapping hard drives... For example, drive C..is usually marked at 'master' and the others are marked as slaves.... The marking is a jumper .. On the bank of your hard drive are three recepticles... The first one is a long plug, of which the data flows... The second plug / receptical contain 4 rather heavy wires.. marked yellow, black, black and red.. they contain the D.C. wiring.. I assume by the colours.... The third plug has no opposite polarity receptical but contains jumper(s)... This is the jumper which determnes whether or not the hard drive is a slave or master drive... On one side of your hard drive, you should notice some printing which tells you how to make the drive a master or slave... You follow the instructions to make that drive a master or slave.... This will allow you to put another drive onto your existing computer.... including removing them should you desire.... I had three computers.. I took the oldest computer's hard drive out and put them into my newer computer... making the older computer's drive C my newer computer's drive D, or which ever letter was available.... Now I do realise I have probably drifted somewhat off topic but I hope the information was of some value...
Larry ve3fxq ----- Original Message ----- From: "jhaynesatalumni" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, December 29, 2006 12:33 PM Subject: [digitalradio] Re: External hard drives? Isn't somebody selling a thumb drive that is all configured so everything runs out of it and doesn't touch the computer hard drive? Seems like I was reading about a product like this that was to make it safe to use a public computer for your private work.
