On 2014-10-30 10:01, Hans Witvliet wrote:
No more horror-scenario's from the past, where external scsi-drives ended up somewhere else, only because one of the powercables were disconnected. If a drive is (momentarily) not detected, it just should mean that its content is not available. It should not have any consequence where the data of other drives might end up...
LOL. That's precisely the issue solved by using UUIDs ;.)
** afaik, you cannot convert a factory-supplied disk with a ms-partition table into a GPT-partition table. Only a compete reinstall, and mostly pc's are delivered with a rescue partition instead on installable media.
I heard of a tool. Dunno. But MS may refuse to boot on the grounds of "changed hardware, you are a pirate!". -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" at Telcontar)