[BC] A puzzling computer problem

[WFIFeng@aol.com]

In a message dated 12/05/2005 12:44:01 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
looey323 at yahoo.com writes:

>   I have done this with one machine and now can interchange 4 different 
> drives on it with just changing the cables to the drive I want to use.  
> Salvaged data I thought was gone on one drive...but all the drives were the 
> same OS.

You should consider getting a set of "Mobile Drive Racks". These are like 
slide-in "drawers" which go into the 
5 1/4" slots. You install the receptacle unit into the machine, and install 
the HD's into the "drawer" parts. (You can have as many "drawers" as you have 
HD's.) Need to change IDE drives, you just power down, swap drawers, and 
power-up. With SATA drives, it can be even easier, because power-down is usually not 
required. (It isn't required of you're swapping a secondary (slave) but 
probably is if you swap the OS drive.

I have several different OS'es that I can swap out on my machine at home. 
It's totally bullet-proof. If you have more than one "receptacle unit" you can 
swap out data drives for backups, etc. This is what I do with my machine at 
home. It also allws me to "clone" the whole main drive in one easy process, for 
painless *full* backups.

Willie...