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Old 11-30-2005, 08:44 PM   #8 (permalink)
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I recently reinstalled mine on my L:, which is a USB enclosure with a 200gig hard drive in it. I swap that drive out on occasion.

When I first boot windows, I have to right click on MY COMPUTER and select MANAGE, then select DISK MANAGEMENT. I then right click on the drive and reactivate it.

Windows knows it is a removeable hard drive, so it turns off the cache write, so you won't lose information if the power goes out or there is a crash. Using cache writes is faster, but you really will not notice the speed difference.

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Originally Posted by RchW
That is an excellent idea. Can it be done using an external HD?
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