Bill in Co. wrote:
| PCR wrote:
| Bill in Co. wrote:
| PCR wrote:
| Bill in Co. wrote:
| PCR wrote:
|
| You didn't answer...
|
| Is there any
| confusion with drive letters when the thing is turned on/off--
| does D:\ change to E:\ for instance?
|
| I'm thinking strange things could happen to drive letters doing as
| you do, by the rules of...
|
| http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=51978
| Order in Which MS-DOS and Windows Assign Drive Letters
|
| When the USB drive is off, as it normally is, I have my normal two
| internal hard drives (each having 2 partitions) show up as C:, D:,
| and E:, F:.
|
| When the USB external HD is turned ON, I get an additional G: and
| H:., (just as expected). So the internal IDE drives get
| enumerated first, followed by the ATAPI interface one (my USB one),
| which I believe is standard procedure.
|
| I see! That is very good, if it doesn't upset the order of the
| letters assigned to the permanent drives.
|
| But I've only turned the USB drive on after bootup (I mean in
| Windows), and haven't checked it otherwise, since I really have no
| need to. It's only being used as a backup.

Oooops. That's right. There's no way it could mess with pre-existing
letters, then. Sorry for confusing things. OK. That's that, then. Your
Vantec is definitely a candidate when the time comes for me, Colorado.
OK, thanks. Let's not mess any further with Terhune's thread, though,
mellow as he may lately have become. OK, bye.

From another other thread segment...

Bill in Co. wrote:
| I've actually just ordered another one, so I can *effortlessly*
| backup the other hard drive, which contains my audio and video files
| (I like to do some audio restoration on various older music).
|
| Two of them, hmmm. So, now you do wish it were easier to get an HDD
| in/out the first?
|
| Not really all that necessary in my case. Why would I? They
| are only backup drives.

No, I'm just saying, one should be enough, if the HDDs are removable &
meant only for backup. OK, bye.