Re: use second hard drive to boot from?
Quoting Joe Smith (jiggyman77@hotmail.com):
> Physically, I have a CD drive, a CD-R drive and a 3.5 floppy. I have a bay
> right under the 3.5 drive which is the same size as the 3.5. Could I fit
> the second hard drive in there?
Yes, it's conventional to stack floppies and hard drives in the same
bay, the only difference being their projection fore and aft. Check
this doesn't foul things behind, like the power supply. You can't
always get the hard drive as far forward as you'd like because there's
not much choice of screw holes (unless you resort to drilling the bay).
The allocation of cabling (primary and secondary) may be worth researching
as you have a recordable CD (I can't remember if it's best to keep the
CDs on one cable). Remember the master/slave jumpers.
Cheers,
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