OT: Want a new hard drive...

Suicide Junkie · #1 April 25th, 2007, 12:19 AM

Bah, I had two 98 drives in my PC for a long time; if the master drive ever failed, the PC would automagically boot up using the slave, and the only difference would be the missing drive, and TC's SE4 desktop instead of a plain red background.

Considering the Canadian HDD curse, it was a sensible precaution.
Sort of a manual RAID thing.

Baron Munchausen · #2 April 25th, 2007, 12:57 AM

But Win9x is not remotely the same as WinNT/XP.

Phoenix-D · #3 April 25th, 2007, 01:05 AM

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Baron Munchausen said:
But Win9x is not remotely the same as WinNT/XP.

But Windows XP is, and I have done what you're warning against without incident. If its mentioned during HD cloning, you probably have to have an actual clone for it to be a problem. Two non-identical installations are fine.