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    Can I disable HD in bios?

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by fubarms, Nov 18, 2007.

  1. fubarms

    fubarms Notebook Consultant

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    HI, I have a question I would like to add one more hard drive to my system. Can I go into the BIOS and disable the drive when I don't need it the only reason that I want to do this is because I want to have a image backup on my computer.
     
    fubarms, Nov 18, 2007
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    Gophn NBR Resident Assistant

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    I do not think you can disable it, rather you can only change which drive you want boot.

    you can just disable the drive in Windows.
     
    Gophn, Nov 18, 2007
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    kl5167 Notebook Evangelist

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    You could add a third dirve and keep it out of the raid and use that for backups.
     
    kl5167, Nov 19, 2007
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  4. fubarms

    fubarms Notebook Consultant

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    Ya that is what I want to do but I want to make sure when I am done backing up I can disable the drive in BIOS so that windows system can't see it. The only time I use it is to restore the image.
     
    fubarms, Nov 19, 2007
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    Got it, I know in some you can, I haven't tried in this one yet.
     
    kl5167, Nov 19, 2007
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