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Hard Drive Swapping
Name: chris Date: May 17, 2003 at 05:39:33 Pacific OS: Windows Xp CPU/Ram: AMD
Comment:
Do you need to change bios setting every time you swap hard drives (or remove 1 of your 2 hard drives, if you had 2) or does the computer automatically detect it?
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