leoliver Posted April 5, 2015 Share Posted April 5, 2015 I have a older Dell Win XP Pro SP3 computer which I connected a external Seagate Free Agent Desktop drive to hold audio/video files. Which has worked well for a number of years. Recently a Friend gave me a HP computer with Win Vista SP2 installed. This computer has a single internal SATA hard drive. I would like to hook up, by USB Port, the external seagate free agent drive to my newer Vista computer, and transfer some audio/video files to the SATA hard drive. But I'm concerned about possible hard ware "clashes" between the 2-computers. So I would like some feedback on this issue. Would there be any risk of a computer crash, or loss of data ?Feedback will be appreciated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaclaz Posted April 5, 2015 Share Posted April 5, 2015 But I'm concerned about possible hard ware "clashes" between the 2-computers.Which kind of "computer" clash do you expect?The only possible one is Disk Signature collision, where there is chance that can be estimated between (optimistically) 1/(232-1) and (pessimistically) roughly 1/(216-1), i.e. between and 1/4294967295 and 1/65535.As long as you connect the USB disk to an already booted machine, IF such a collision hypothetically happens (it won't ) the duplicate Disk Signature on the USB disk will be changed to a new one with NO practical effect on the PC nor on the disk.IF the USB disk is used as bootable disk, IF hypothetically the collision happens (it won't ) the internal Disk Signature will be changed and likely you will need to repair the BCD. In a nutshell: Would there be any risk of a computer crash, or loss of data ?No. jaclaz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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