Re: Vista on 2nd harddrive

"Frank McCoy" wrote:
Um ... Pulling the power-plug often doesn't work, in my
experience. Nor does just disconnecting the drive cable.
You have to do THAT (disconnect the cable of the drive
you don't want changed), set the drive you're installing to
"Cable Select" (generally no jumpers installed) and put it
in the end or MASTER of the cable.

Then you install XP or Vista.

When the new OS is up and running, THEN you can put
the old drive back in at the SLAVE connector, either having
it also on "Cable Select", or setting it to SLAVE while
jumpering the new main drive to MASTER.

Just yanking the plug or the connector usually causes either
the BIOS or the Windows installation to barf and complain.
They have to *know* it's the only drive on the cable; and
*think* it always will be so.


So how do the HDs in mobile racks (i.e. "HD caddies")
*know* that they're there or not there when their power
switch is turned ON or OFF? How does the installer
know that they're there or not there? Why would the
installer care about whether it was putting an OS on a
Slave HD as opposed to a Master HD? I can boot just
as well from a lone solitary Slave HD as from a Master.

This is the ONLY difficulty which I've run into when using
power-removal to simulate physical removal of a HD:
When cloning a PATA HD to a HD on another IDE channel,
if the source HD is on the middle connector of the IDE cable
(with the "dead" HD at the end connector), the cloning utiltity
sometimes doesn't see a good connection to the source HD
and refuses to do the cloning. If the positions of the HDs are
reversed so that source HD is at the end connector (still
jumpered as Slave), the cloning will proceed. The difficulty
seems to be with the signal quality of a lone "live" HD at the
middle connector, and not with its Master/Slave jumpering.

That restriction probably also holds for OS installations -
the end connector must be occupied by a "live" HD, but
the installation is independent of the Master/Slave setting
and independent of position on the cable.

*TimDaniels*
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