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Old February 24th 04, 03:20 AM
Rod Speed
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"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.