Re: Additional hard drive

The most straight-forward way to arrive at this would
be to install the OS in the new HD with the old HD
disconnected. Then, after the installation is complete,
jumper the new HD as Master, and jumper the old HD
as Slave, and put the HDs back in the case. You don't
need to do anything with the BIOS except to put CD
drives at the head of the device type boot order before
you start the OS installation, and to put HDs at the head
of the device type boot order afterwards. Then, when
the OS has booted up, you can delete the WINDOWS
folder from the old HD and any other files that you don't
need, and keep those files that you want on what will
probably be called by the new OS the "D: Local Disk",
i.e. D partition.

Western Digital is a little different from other HD makers
in that their HDs have a jumper mode for lone HDs.
That is, if it's the only HD that is connected, it should be
jumpered in the mode called "Single".

I don't know the relative qualities of Western Digital and
Samsung hard drives. I do know that all hard drives
should be kept as cool as possible for longevity, and case
designs which put the hard drives right behind an air intake
keep the hard drives cool.. My Dell has the primary HD
mounted vertically with intake air blowing directly at the
circuit board, and the HD stays quite cool.

*TimDaniels*

"Luminore" wrote:
The OS will be one, on new HD only, the old HD will be
used as an additional file storage.(reformatted).
This way, the option is to install the new OS with the
ld HD disconnected, then just connect old HD as Slave?
Does Western Digital HDD have some specific? What
HDD is better use, Western Digital or Samsung?(they're
both the same price, WD just have a bigger cashe size -8MB)

How to change boot device order in BIOS? Currently i have
in 'Advanced BIOS features':

First boot device - Floppy
Second boot device - HDD-0
Third boot device - LS120 (what's this?)

I need set first device CDROm.


Luminore

"Timothy Daniels" <TDaniels@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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If you install the new OS with the old HD disconnected,
the installer will see only the new HD and it will set the
newly installed OS's partition to be called "C:". When
the new OS runs, it will call the partition containing the old
OS "D:" (assuming that there are no other partitions). This
is OK unless one or the other HD has shortcuts that refer
to files on the other HD. While the new HD is the only HD
in the system, its OS will boot regardless whether it's Master
or Slave (assuming it's not Western Digital). With both HDs
connected, unless you reset the BIOS so that the HD boot
order puts the Slave HD at the head of the HD boot order,
the HD which is set as Master will boot (or, more accurately,
control the booting). Thus, you can control which HD controls
booting by resetting the HD boot order in the BIOS.

If you install the new OS while the old HD is still connected,
the installer will set the new OS to call its own partition "D:",
and it will set the boot.ini file on the new HD to dual-boot -
that is, you will be presented with 2 options from which to
select at boot time, each one designating one of the 2 OSes.

You could also just clone the OS from the old HD to the new
HD. That will give you 2 OSess, each calling its own partition
"C:" when it's running. To dual-boot between the two OSes,
you can either reset the HD boot order in the BIOS, or you can
put a 2nd entry in the boot.ini file of the Master HD so the loader
will let you decide at boot time. If that is what you want to do,
post another question on how to make a clone.

BTW, "boot device order" sets the TYPE of device that will
control booting, and the "hard drive boot order" sets which
hard drive will control booting.

*TimDaniels*


"Luminore" wrote:
> I will install second internal HD.
> MB is with embedded Ultra DMA-100 PCI IDE controller,
> and MB supports two IDE ports up to 4 ATAPI devices.
> I want set new HDD as primary and old HDD as secondary,
> so new HDD need be set as Master and old as Slave? I need
> install new OS on new HDD(via booting from CD), need I
> change something in BIOS, or system will boot this Master
> HDD as first Boot Device and there is no necessity to change
> anything in BIOS?
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