I have a 3.5 IDE hard drive which is has windows XP on and all my programs and music etc are on a SATA drive which is plugged into the motherboard. If I unplug the SATA drive and reinstall windows on my IDE will I be able to plug my SATA drive straight back in and still have all my music etc. I know the programs will have to be reinstalled its just music and photos and videos I am concerned about.
2007-02-05 09:27:41 · 3 answers · asked by nc_hull 3 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
you can do this, but without unhooking the sata. you'll make the sata the slave drive , with the ide the master. once you have done this, pop in the cd and go ahead and run the setup program.
2007-02-05 09:53:09 · answer #1 · answered by gas_indycar 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why go thru with the unplugging, and plugging.
when it comes up to reformat, just tell it the drive with the OS.
2007-02-05 17:35:28 · answer #2 · answered by rodjared 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeah it will still be there.
2007-02-05 17:48:09 · answer #3 · answered by Snerler 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋