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Whiteside
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I plan to reset my system to defaults soonish, but have a slave drive I added a few months ago.
Prior to using the system restore disc should I disconnect the slave drive?
Once the system is restored, do I simply reconnect the slave drive, and it will be recognised, or will I need to go back through the install procedure I went through when I initially connected and formatted it? I'd not want to lose the data, of course!
Thanks in advance for any advice...
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BurrWalnut
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You won't lose the data. You may, however, have different drive letters allocated to the HDDs and optical drives from what they are now, depending upon your set-up.
Whether you have the slave attached or not doesn't matter. What you mustn't do after installing, is to change the drive letter of the optical drive from where you installed the operating system. This can give you problems when running programs like sfc which looks at the registry for its pointers.
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Whiteside
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Sounds good.
Thanks for the advice - it was something I was really unsure of, and the potential was certainly there for me to cause myself a massive headache!
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