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Removable Hard Drives
Hey Everyone,
I trying to figure something out. I want to be able to have to hard drives. One is a internal one which is going to stay there. The other one is a removable one. I want to set these up so that whenever i insert the removable drive it will boot from there, but if there is no removable drive it boots from the internal drive. If anyone has any idea of what could be helpful please help me out. The two hard drives are both Western Digital WD400 which is a 40GB Hard drive. The computer i am doing it on is a Optiplex EX GX260. Thanks You!
DELL-Stephen S
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June 28th, 2004 19:00
hytek16,
Thank you for visiting the Dell Community Forum.
I am not sure if there is any way to automatically boot to the removable drive whenever it is present without having to enter the system BIOS setup and change the drive settings and boot sequence. You may want to see if both drives are listed in the BIOS boot sequence menu and if so try the removable drive as the first boot device with the stationary drive as the second boot device. If this is not available, you will probably have to make changes in the system BIOS to tell the system which hard drive to boot from.