[H] Time to Reinstall

[Steve Tomporowski]

It's time to reinstall the OS, which will be either Vista or 7 and I'm 
going to move the current boot drive to be storage only (I have some 
questions as to its ability as a boot drive).  So, the question becomes, 
what's the easiest way to do this without having this drive still be the 
boot drive?  This is a Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3P and there are 8 SATA ports, 
6 are labelled SATA 2_0 through SATA2_5, two others are supposedly 3GB 
ports labelled GSSATA2_0 and GSSATA2_1.  Case is very crowded so I want 
to have to do as little rewiring as possible, so can I add a drive to 
one of the unoccupied GS ports and have it come out as the boot drive, 
or do I have to put the new drive in the port from this drive?  It would 
seem a shame if the boot drive can't be a 3.0GB port.  Manual is unclear 
here, I just want to make sure that the old drive is not used by Windows 
for anything to do with boot.  The drive has too much info for me to 
just wipe right now.

Thanks...Steve

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