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bootable hard drive supplementation?
- Thread starter purerealm
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Sure, as long as you dont try too boot to it. If you do it could, as a worst case, trash the install (not the data) on the 2nd drive finding 'new' devices. Either make sure to check your boot order in the bios, or hook the drive us as a slave. You should be able to access everything. Short of an undetected virus on drive 2, there is no risk to your existing setup.
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OP should be alright as long as he has bios control over the boot devices. For my Nvidia boxes, its "ESC" to enter the bootup menu, or just go into the bios, and force one device to boot over another one.
Otherwise, the machine should pick up on the first bootable partition from the lowest IDE port. so if all else fails, jumper that HDD to slave and slap it on the last IDE port (2ndary in most cases) in your rig.
Otherwise, the machine should pick up on the first bootable partition from the lowest IDE port. so if all else fails, jumper that HDD to slave and slap it on the last IDE port (2ndary in most cases) in your rig.
Oh goodness! What confusing answers!
If it's an IDE drive be sure to connect it to the second IDE controller on the motherboard, with the drive's jumper set as 'Slave' and attached to the middle connector on the drive data cable. That'll eliminate any chance of booting from it.
If it's a SATA drive be sure to add it to the highest numbered SATA port on the motherboard, for the same purpose.
People add bootable drives as secondary drives quite often without any problems. Matter of fact it's a pretty useful thing to do if you're trying to recover data off a drive prior to formatting it. When your system goes 'belly-up' and leaves you with needed data on the system drive, easiest way to overcome the problem is replace the drive, install Windows on a new one, and then pop the old drive back in as a secondary drive to copy data files across and then format.
If it's an IDE drive be sure to connect it to the second IDE controller on the motherboard, with the drive's jumper set as 'Slave' and attached to the middle connector on the drive data cable. That'll eliminate any chance of booting from it.
If it's a SATA drive be sure to add it to the highest numbered SATA port on the motherboard, for the same purpose.
People add bootable drives as secondary drives quite often without any problems. Matter of fact it's a pretty useful thing to do if you're trying to recover data off a drive prior to formatting it. When your system goes 'belly-up' and leaves you with needed data on the system drive, easiest way to overcome the problem is replace the drive, install Windows on a new one, and then pop the old drive back in as a secondary drive to copy data files across and then format.
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purerealm said:
In theory yes. In practice there will be _some_ differences and therefore, you run a risk of _something_ weird happening.
If the hardware is exactly the same it is possible to not have any issues. I just wouldnt count on it to happen 100% of the time.