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    Ext Sata drive from XP invalid in Vista

    So...when I'm back up and running I should assign it a drive letter when I format it. What if that drive letter conflicts with one on a machine that I attach the drive to?
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    Ext Sata drive from XP invalid in Vista

    Old Hippie, You know your stuff.....right on, for the hell of it, I gave it a try...still dynamic...Oh well, it's fine, I can wait until the xp machine is up again.. Gene
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    Ext Sata drive from XP invalid in Vista

    The other thing here is I don't have another machine up now other than the vista machine that has Sata. So, I'll have to wait until the xp machine is rebuilt. What if I put them into an external USB enclosure? Would that work?
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    Ext Sata drive from XP invalid in Vista

    Old Hippie, I suspect you're right but since they are/were external and I didn't consider them anything other than dyanamic, that's what I did with them. The xp machine that they were on has gone south now but not before I did a complete backup to one of the external sata drives. What I guess...
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    Ext Sata drive from XP invalid in Vista

    I have two computers, one running Vista Home Premium, the other running Windows XP Pro, SP2. THis morning in ended up with a hammered system because of virus and trojans etc., the system has two external Sata drives on it and I had done some backing up of stuff prior to all of this. I've decided...