Windows & Hard Drives

[Strider]

I really didn't know what forum to put this in, so if it's in the wrong forum (which I don't) then sorry . Anyways, I found out something very interesting; however, at the cost of reformatting my hard drives. Here's the story, I decided to install another OS on my computer. Since I had three hard drives installed on it I thought to myself "Hmm, I'll just go into the BIOS and disable the hard drives that I'm not using just to be safe.". I did just that and come to my surprise and some kind of frustrating horror Windows XP still detected the the hard drives. I quickly rebooted and went straight into the BIOS to make sure I did disable the hard drives - I did for they didn't show up in the BIOS. So I did a reboot into Windows XP and low & behold the two hard drives were showing up that I disable when I click on My Computer. I ended up having to start all over which is another story, but it's too long & boring to tell it here. I just wanted to warn anyone else who's thinking of doing this (Disabling the hard drives in the BIOS) that the Operating System you're going to install might still be able to recognize the hard drive even though it's showing none (or disable) in the BIOS. It'll might save you a reformat and starting over all over again like it did to me.

[glc]

The only safe way is to physically disconnect the drives.