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Timothy Daniels February 23rd 04 09:59 PM

isolating new clone drive for 1st bootup
 
As Rod Speed has pointed out, the clone drive
resulting from a cloning of a WinXP system HD
should be the only drive with an a WinXP OS
on an active partition when booting it up for the
1st time. (Thereafter it can "see" and be "seen"
by another OS in the PC.) The hassle is that you
have to open the case, disconnect the cables to the
other drives, including the one that has just been
cloned, boot up the new clone, and then, usually,
open the case again and reconnect the other drives.

It would be a lot easier if one could just shut down
and then disconnect the other drives by use of a
physical switch to break the connection with their
power cables. That would avoid all the hassle of
opening the case and unplugging the other drives.

So, does anyone have any information that would
indicate if switching the power cables would work?

*TimDaniels*

Rod Speed February 23rd 04 10:05 PM


Timothy Daniels wrote in
message ...

As Rod Speed has pointed out, the clone drive
resulting from a cloning of a WinXP system HD
should be the only drive with an a WinXP OS
on an active partition when booting it up for the
1st time. (Thereafter it can "see" and be "seen"
by another OS in the PC.) The hassle is that you
have to open the case, disconnect the cables to the
other drives, including the one that has just been
cloned, boot up the new clone, and then, usually,
open the case again and reconnect the other drives.


It would be a lot easier if one could just shut down
and then disconnect the other drives by use of a
physical switch to break the connection with their
power cables. That would avoid all the hassle of
opening the case and unplugging the other drives.


So, does anyone have any information that would
indicate if switching the power cables would work?


Its not a great idea, plenty of systems dont like having
a drive thats not getting power on the ribbon cable much.

It is a kludge that does sort of work tho, and thats
what quite a few removable drive bay systems do.



Eric Gisin February 23rd 04 10:23 PM

If the drives are on different IDE channels, you can disable the original's
channel in BIOS - Integrated Periphs. Setting the drive type to NONE does not
work.

Most of my newer IDE devices can have their power unplugged and not affect
other system operation.

"Timothy Daniels" wrote in message
...
As Rod Speed has pointed out, the clone drive
resulting from a cloning of a WinXP system HD
should be the only drive with an a WinXP OS
on an active partition when booting it up for the
1st time. (Thereafter it can "see" and be "seen"
by another OS in the PC.) The hassle is that you
have to open the case, disconnect the cables to the
other drives, including the one that has just been
cloned, boot up the new clone, and then, usually,
open the case again and reconnect the other drives.

It would be a lot easier if one could just shut down
and then disconnect the other drives by use of a
physical switch to break the connection with their
power cables. That would avoid all the hassle of
opening the case and unplugging the other drives.

So, does anyone have any information that would
indicate if switching the power cables would work?



Timothy Daniels February 24th 04 03:03 AM

"Rod Speed" wrote:

Timothy Daniels wrote:
As Rod Speed has pointed out, the clone drive
resulting from a cloning of a WinXP system HD
should be the only drive with an a WinXP OS
on an active partition when booting it up for the
1st time. (Thereafter it can "see" and be "seen"
by another OS in the PC.) The hassle is that you
have to open the case, disconnect the cables to the
other drives, including the one that has just been
cloned, boot up the new clone, and then, usually,
open the case again and reconnect the other drives.


It would be a lot easier if one could just shut down
and then disconnect the other drives by use of a
physical switch to break the connection with their
power cables. That would avoid all the hassle of
opening the case and unplugging the other drives.


So, does anyone have any information that would
indicate if switching the power cables would work?


Its not a great idea, plenty of systems dont like having
a drive thats not getting power on the ribbon cable much.

It is a kludge that does sort of work tho, and thats
what quite a few removable drive bay systems do.



I guess it's worth a try, then. The more I get into
cloning HDs, the more I see how Microsoft put obstacles
in the way of cloning by making it a hassle.

*TimDaniels*

Rod Speed February 24th 04 03:20 AM


"Timothy Daniels" wrote in message ...
"Rod Speed" wrote:

Timothy Daniels wrote:
As Rod Speed has pointed out, the clone drive
resulting from a cloning of a WinXP system HD
should be the only drive with an a WinXP OS
on an active partition when booting it up for the
1st time. (Thereafter it can "see" and be "seen"
by another OS in the PC.) The hassle is that you
have to open the case, disconnect the cables to the
other drives, including the one that has just been
cloned, boot up the new clone, and then, usually,
open the case again and reconnect the other drives.


It would be a lot easier if one could just shut down
and then disconnect the other drives by use of a
physical switch to break the connection with their
power cables. That would avoid all the hassle of
opening the case and unplugging the other drives.


So, does anyone have any information that would
indicate if switching the power cables would work?


Its not a great idea, plenty of systems dont like having
a drive thats not getting power on the ribbon cable much.

It is a kludge that does sort of work tho, and thats
what quite a few removable drive bay systems do.


I guess it's worth a try, then.


Yeah, it mostly does work.

The more I get into cloning HDs, the more I see how Microsoft
put obstacles in the way of cloning by making it a hassle.


Basically because MS assumes that cloning will only be
done much when replacing the boot drive and that having
to unplug the original for the first boot after the clone is
pretty much a non issue when upgrading the drive etc.

There are other approaches like image files
that work fine if you're cloning for backup etc.



Timothy Daniels February 24th 04 03:26 AM

My motherboard BIOS has an IDE Configuration
setting, and that might be a way to turn off 2 HDs
by turning off one IDE channel, but... my HDs are
on a SIIG controller card - whose BIOS is an
undocumented unknown. Thanks for the info, though.

*TimDaniels*


"Eric Gisin" wrote:
If the drives are on different IDE channels, you can
disable the original's channel in BIOS - Integrated Periphs.
Setting the drive type to NONE does not work.

Most of my newer IDE devices can have their power
unplugged and not affect other system operation.

"Timothy Daniels" wrote:
As Rod Speed has pointed out, the clone drive
resulting from a cloning of a WinXP system HD
should be the only drive with an a WinXP OS
on an active partition when booting it up for the
1st time. (Thereafter it can "see" and be "seen"
by another OS in the PC.) The hassle is that you
have to open the case, disconnect the cables to the
other drives, including the one that has just been
cloned, boot up the new clone, and then, usually,
open the case again and reconnect the other drives.

It would be a lot easier if one could just shut down
and then disconnect the other drives by use of a
physical switch to break the connection with their
power cables. That would avoid all the hassle of
opening the case and unplugging the other drives.

So, does anyone have any information that would
indicate if switching the power cables would work?



Angry American February 24th 04 04:22 AM

Or better yet just pick the drive to boot too in your BIOS.

Dan

Timothy Daniels wrote:
As Rod Speed has pointed out, the clone drive
resulting from a cloning of a WinXP system HD
should be the only drive with an a WinXP OS
on an active partition when booting it up for the
1st time. (Thereafter it can "see" and be "seen"
by another OS in the PC.) The hassle is that you
have to open the case, disconnect the cables to the
other drives, including the one that has just been
cloned, boot up the new clone, and then, usually,
open the case again and reconnect the other drives.

It would be a lot easier if one could just shut down
and then disconnect the other drives by use of a
physical switch to break the connection with their
power cables. That would avoid all the hassle of
opening the case and unplugging the other drives.

So, does anyone have any information that would
indicate if switching the power cables would work?

*TimDaniels*




Rod Speed February 24th 04 04:55 AM


Angry American
wrote in message ...

Or better yet just pick the drive to boot too in your BIOS.


Doesnt work when cloning the boot drive in the NT/2K/XP family.

Timothy Daniels wrote:
As Rod Speed has pointed out, the clone drive
resulting from a cloning of a WinXP system HD
should be the only drive with an a WinXP OS
on an active partition when booting it up for the
1st time. (Thereafter it can "see" and be "seen"
by another OS in the PC.) The hassle is that you
have to open the case, disconnect the cables to the
other drives, including the one that has just been
cloned, boot up the new clone, and then, usually,
open the case again and reconnect the other drives.

It would be a lot easier if one could just shut down
and then disconnect the other drives by use of a
physical switch to break the connection with their
power cables. That would avoid all the hassle of
opening the case and unplugging the other drives.

So, does anyone have any information that would
indicate if switching the power cables would work?

*TimDaniels*






Angry American February 24th 04 05:05 AM

It does if you choose and isolate the particular drive. As long as the boot
files are on the root, it will work.

Dan

Rod Speed wrote:
Angry American
wrote in message ...

Or better yet just pick the drive to boot too in your BIOS.


Doesnt work when cloning the boot drive in the NT/2K/XP family.

Timothy Daniels wrote:
As Rod Speed has pointed out, the clone drive
resulting from a cloning of a WinXP system HD
should be the only drive with an a WinXP OS
on an active partition when booting it up for the
1st time. (Thereafter it can "see" and be "seen"
by another OS in the PC.) The hassle is that you
have to open the case, disconnect the cables to the
other drives, including the one that has just been
cloned, boot up the new clone, and then, usually,
open the case again and reconnect the other drives.

It would be a lot easier if one could just shut down
and then disconnect the other drives by use of a
physical switch to break the connection with their
power cables. That would avoid all the hassle of
opening the case and unplugging the other drives.

So, does anyone have any information that would
indicate if switching the power cables would work?

*TimDaniels*




Rod Speed February 24th 04 05:56 AM


Angry American
wrote in message ...

It does if you choose and isolate the particular drive.


Nothing like what you said. He was talking
about HOW you isolate the original boot drive,
not how you select which drive to boot off.

As long as the boot files are on the root, it will work.


Not if you dont make the original boot drive invisible to
the OS for the first boot after the clone has been made.


Rod Speed wrote:
Angry American
wrote in message ...

Or better yet just pick the drive to boot too in your BIOS.


Doesnt work when cloning the boot drive in the NT/2K/XP family.

Timothy Daniels wrote:
As Rod Speed has pointed out, the clone drive
resulting from a cloning of a WinXP system HD
should be the only drive with an a WinXP OS
on an active partition when booting it up for the
1st time. (Thereafter it can "see" and be "seen"
by another OS in the PC.) The hassle is that you
have to open the case, disconnect the cables to the
other drives, including the one that has just been
cloned, boot up the new clone, and then, usually,
open the case again and reconnect the other drives.

It would be a lot easier if one could just shut down
and then disconnect the other drives by use of a
physical switch to break the connection with their
power cables. That would avoid all the hassle of
opening the case and unplugging the other drives.

So, does anyone have any information that would
indicate if switching the power cables would work?

*TimDaniels*







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