Re: fitting second hard drive
From: Mike (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 03/09/04
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Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2004 08:01:23 -0800
I have some questions,if you would be so good as to give
me further advice.
Is the socket that is mounted "piggy back" on the ribbon
cable about six to eight inches from the existing hard
drive, the one to plug the old hard drive in to?
Peter, who has also kindly offered advice, says that if it
is a 40 pin flat ribbon cable, which it is, I would need a
new cable. Is that correct?
My motherboard manual-- I assume Peter's "mobo" means
motherboard?-- says extra hard drives can be fitted using
the onboard IDE connectors but not as a RAID array. I
think that refers to the arrangement for connecting 2
drives together so that thay work faster? Not something I
would want. It goes on to say that however it is set up it
will function in the ATA-133 protocol.
The manual describes 16 different jumper switch settings
but none of them refer to adding a slave hard drive. do
you have any suggestions for that?
The old hard drive jumper switch was straight forward to
adust to the Slave option.
Thanks again
Mike
>-----Original Message-----
>Hi, Mike.
>
>Sounds like some computer terminology is confusing you.
>
>The typical PC today comes with two IDE channels built
in. These are called
>the Primary and Secondary channels. Each can accept two
hard drives or
>other devices (such as CD/DVD drives), so each cable that
connects the
>drives to the mainboard has connectors for two drives.
The first drive on
>each cable is the Master; the second is the Slave. The
newest system uses
>"cable select" to determine automatically which drive is
master; older
>drives need to have "jumpers" set to distinguish them. A
jumper is a sleeve
>that fits over a pair of pins on the drive to
electrically connect the pins.
>
>For a newbie, the hardest part might be working up the
courage to actually
>open the computer case and start poking around the
unfamiliar insides.
>Actually doing the job is no harder than changing the
spark plugs in your
>car. The job (both this first one and all future such
upgrades and repairs)
>will be MUCH easier if you read the manuals - and look at
the pictures -
>before you begin. You should have documentation for both
the
>computer/mainboard itself and for the HD, since different
manufacturers use
>different jumper settings and even change details between
their own models.
>
>With all that behind us, all you need to do is to power
down, open your
>computer, plug in your second drive to the cable, and
reboot. Leave your
>main HD (your "boot device") as Master on the Primary
channel. Add the old
>drive as primary slave, or on either position on the
secondary cable,
>depending you what CD/DVDs you have connected. If your
computer doesn't
>automatically recognize the second HD, recheck the
mainboard manual to see
>if you need to set the BIOS to recognize it. If the
computer sees the
>drive, then WinXP should see it, too.
>
>In WinXP, use Disk Management (Run Diskmgmt.msc) to
explore all your drives,
>including the one you just added. Assign it a drive
letter that does not
>conflict with the letters you are already familiar with
so that you can copy
>files to and from it without confusion. Then simply use
the normal Windows
>commands to copy from the old drive to the new one. When
you have retrieved
>everything useful, you can use Disk Management to
repartition and/or
>reformat the old drive and use it for additional storage,
if you like.
>
>Read the manuals, open the case, and begin. If you get
stuck, tell us what
>you did and what happened. We are a few steps ahead of
you on the learning
>curve, but we got here the same way you are about to, so
we have a pretty
>good idea of how you feel. ;<)
>
>RC
>--
>R. C. White, CPA
>San Marcos, TX
>rc@corridor.net
>Microsoft Windows MVP
>
>"mike" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message
>news:909901c40551$35e6e230$a301280a@phx.gbl...
>> I want to download info. from previous computer's hard
>> drive onto my new one. I believe this can be done by
>> something called slaving.
>> Can anyone tell me if this is a difficult process for
the
>> inexperienced. Are there any particular pitfalls?
>> If the answers to the above are favourable where would I
>> look for instructions on the procedure?
>> Thanks in advance for any advice.
>
>.
>
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