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saunds2
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_ 		26. December 2006 @ 10:29 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Hi,

I have got a New Hard Drive that is a USB one, I wanted to have this as my main drive as the hard drive built into my pc is fubar'd. Is there anyway that when I try and load the Windows CD for running the set up program, I get to select the F drive which is the external drive as it just seems to show the c drive?

Cheers
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Morph416
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_ 		26. December 2006 @ 11:20 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Heh...I myself, wouldn't bother with the traditional setup of using a bootable USB drive. I'd remove the hard drive from the enclosure and install it into the tower. Set the new drive as master, the original drive as a slave, and install a fresh OS on the new drive.
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ddp
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_ 		26. December 2006 @ 12:56 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
get a new hd for internal use as can't use the xp external hd as bootable drive on other computers.
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