05-01-2013, 12:24 PM
Can I ask the computer wizards what is probably quite a noddy question, please.
I presently have various printers, scanners etc plugged into my computer via the USB ports. The OS is Vista.
I have just bought a USB external hard-drive to back-up my files, and also a powered USB hub as I'm running out of USB sockets on the computer (Five years old now, so in computer terms it's getting a bit long in the tooth!)
If I disconnect everything and reconnect all the peripherals via the hub, connected to one of the computers own USB sockets, and add the hard-drive wired directly to one of the computer's own USB sockets , when I switch on again, apart from recognising the extra hard-drive, will the computer be blithely unaware that the peripherals are physically all connected differently?
I suppose this boils down to 'are the USB sockets all simply in parallel, or does the computer identify them individually?'
As I said, probably a noddy question, but better to be forewarned!
Many thanks,
Andy
I presently have various printers, scanners etc plugged into my computer via the USB ports. The OS is Vista.
I have just bought a USB external hard-drive to back-up my files, and also a powered USB hub as I'm running out of USB sockets on the computer (Five years old now, so in computer terms it's getting a bit long in the tooth!)
If I disconnect everything and reconnect all the peripherals via the hub, connected to one of the computers own USB sockets, and add the hard-drive wired directly to one of the computer's own USB sockets , when I switch on again, apart from recognising the extra hard-drive, will the computer be blithely unaware that the peripherals are physically all connected differently?
I suppose this boils down to 'are the USB sockets all simply in parallel, or does the computer identify them individually?'
As I said, probably a noddy question, but better to be forewarned!
Many thanks,
Andy