Here's why. Better than 1/2 the machines I see with multiple hard disks have some software installed on the second drive. Said software will fail along with the drive.
In fact, you can test for this effect today, AFTER YOU BACKUP!!! Just power off, unplug the wide IDE connection from the failing drive and power up.
What happens?
Bob
(Smart) failure predicted on hard disk 1, Fujisu MPG3102AH-(PS)", and then insturcted me to do immediate back ups.
I believe that Fujisu is the second HD which I added later on to my pc, data inside is just some games which I don't care to be lost.
My concern is, will it effect the rest of my system if the Fujisu HD finally crashes?
Thanks for all your helps!

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