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Old May 13th, 2009, 09:08 AM
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Originally Posted by Beavis View Post
bryant you have to take the cloned hard drive and put in place of the 40gb hard drive. that means physically take it out of the usb case.

you also have to change he jumpers to master if it has them.
(If the only drive in there now is the 40 gB HD and it IS the master, then I would simply put the usb drive in its place and would NOT have to mess with the jumpers, right, because the 40 gB was already defined as the master). Am I correct here?


what you really want to do is set up a raid with 2 drives. if one fails the other takes over. then you run to the store and get a replacement drive to replace the bad drive.
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