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Installing second hard drive and Firewire card

by Garsut Dec 24, 2004 10:58PM PST

I?m planning to install a second hard drive and firewire card in my desktop PC. My question is can I install both the second hard drive and firewire card at the same time? Or do I have to install and configure each of them separately?

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Will the OS do this?

by r. proffitt Forum moderator Dec 24, 2004 11:13PM PST

Some OSes such as Linux would not take issue with such an addition. Microsoft's Windows seems to trip over itself as we do this so I found it best to add one item at a time.

In closing, not all versions of Windows supports firewire and some versions of Windows needs patches for big drives.

The configuration of such is automatic except the hard disk partitioning and format.

Bob

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