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 Jan 16 2007, 10:18 AM
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I bought a new ide 80gig hard drive this one will be Master with XP Pro. what I was wondering is if I put the jumper to slave on my other 40gig drive and seeing that I can switch drives at the start up by using a shortcut key F8 that came with my Asus P4 800-vm motherboard if this could eventually damage the second drive. The reason I ask is that I did use an older drive this way an eventually damaged the SMART so dont really know if its just the drive or using the bios shortcut in selecting drives that cause the SMART lost Both have the same full install of XP Pro Thanks  (Moderator edit: moved post to more appropriate forum. jgweed) This post has been edited by jgweed: Jan 16 2007, 11:11 AM |
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Jan 16 2007, 11:50 AM
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arachibutyrophobia Group: BC Advisor Posts: 4,828 Joined: 4-March 05 From: Northern CA. Member No.: 13,532 |
SMART is the acronym for Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology that has become a industry standard which check the systems vitals and usually if enabled in the BIOS will give you a warning that your hdd is in trouble. I suspect that your hdd was already in trouble and that the SMART was just telling you. The failure you experienced would not have been from that type of use.
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Jan 16 2007, 04:05 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 36 Joined: 14-October 06 Member No.: 90,147 |
Thanks
But that is the reason Im changing drives, but did wonder if at boot switching to secondary drive this way may have accelerated the problem But still wondering by putting my primary as slave seeing the new drive will be master and do have stuff to transfer if by leaving the secondary in slave with XP installed without a format could cause a problem in long term Have a nice day Cobra2 |
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Jan 20 2007, 08:35 PM
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 Visually handicapped, hence the avatar :0) Group: Moderator Posts: 14,526 Joined: 2-October 05 From: Southeastern CT, USA Member No.: 35,824 |
The boot sequence won't harm the drive - any more than any access will harm it. If the drive's on it's last legs (the SMART will indicate that) - then it's gonna die soon, so backup your data.
Installing the new hard drive as the Master and putting the OS on there won't be a problem. The biggest problem will be to get Windows to boot off the new (and presumably faster drive). To do this, remove the other (older) drive when installing Windows on the new drive. FWIW - you may have problems if you install the same Windows on the new drive that is on the old drive (but not likely if no other components change). BUT, if you try to use both copies simultaneously, you may get into hot water with Microsoft - and may be denied updates because this is a violation of the EULA. -------------------- - John
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