Xp and removable IDE hard drive

[Jolt2]

I have a second hard drive in a removable tray. In Windows 9x I can run with the second drive plugged in or remove it and the operating system works fine. When I plug the second tray drive in and boot up the system, the system finds the second drive and moves my drive letters around. This works out good for me to do backups and to tranfer files from one computer to another. I can just remove the tray and plug it into the other computer.

My question is: Will this setup work in Windows XP? Does this goof up XP's hardware detection and require registration all over again each time I plug the drive in or remove it?

 

[Confused]

Just adding a secondary, non-boot drive shouldn't require it to be activated again.


Confused

 

[stevewm]

This will work just fine in XP

One thing will change however.

2k and XP use a different system of assigning drive letters. Once a drive letter is assigned to a volume it stays the same until you manually change it or until the volume's serial number is changed. So once the drive is registered with the system the letter will always be the same anytime you boot up with the drive installed

 

[GonzoDaGr8]

Will this setup work in Windows XP?

Yup

Does this goof up XP's hardware detection and require registration all over again each time I plug the drive in or remove it?

Nope

I have a second hard drive in a removable tray.

I love those removeable racks..I use one for my primary drive though. When I want to run ME/XP, In goes the 80-Gigger. When I want to run *nix, In goes the 40-Gigger. Makes it handy to mess with different OS-es and not have to dork around with partitioning up the ying-yang.

 

[Jolt2]

Thanks for the info. Looks like I will finally get around to installing XP.