Re: Dual boot & master/slave

Hi Anna,
I was hoping you'd respond. I don't know if you recall, but I posted
a month ago that I was going to have a good breakfast and schedule 4
hours to do the HD installation.

I'm now on day 3. I am NOT familiar with jumper settings -- I just
learned about that from reading the installation instructions. I
understand that the 15 gig drive is old. I don't have a job; I don't
have money. So even $20 is a lot of money for me. Right now, I'm not
ready to buy another drive. The Samsung will be useful to me. In
case the WD fails, I can boot with Samsung and continue my work
without delay. I will also use it for my non-business online
activities, downloading, etc.

I don't know Pata or Sata. My drive says EIDE.

If I have to look at the current *old* Samsung drive to learn the
jumper settings, that means I have to take it out of the computer. I
don't want to do that, if possible.

I WILL have two drives, and WILL have a dual boot.

Let me confirm: I should set the new WESTERN DIGITAL as SECONDAY
MASTER.

The installation instructions tell me to first install it as PRIMARY
SLAVE. Then I run their software. I don't know what their software
does.

What about the Samsung? Do you think it's jumpered now as
SINGLE/jumperless? Or Primary Master, or what?

What should I do next? I am afraid of computers. :-(

Lady Dungeness
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On Fri, 6 Jul 2007 22:18:05 -0400, "Anna" <myname@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

|
|"Lady Dungeness" <Lady.Dungeness@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
|news:uspt83lccfighqs6ek7es9s198164onjsf@xxxxxxxxxx
|> I'm trying to install a new Western Digital 160 gig hard drive. The
|> old harddrive is SAMSUNG SV1533D.
<snip>
|> 1. If I'm going to have a dual-boot configuration, does it really
|> matter?
|> 2. If it matters, I'll want the new WESTERN DIGITAL to be the master,
|> and make the Samsung the slave.
|> 3. How do I do this?
|> 4. What do I do next?
|>
|> Lady Dungeness
|> Crabby, but Great Legs!
|
|
|Lady D.
|Your Samsung HDD is really "old-in-the-tooth" to say the least. It's a 15 GB
|HDD, and honestly, it's an ancient relic by today's standards. I can't
|imagine that it will serve any useful purpose in your system. With hard
|drives selling as low as 25 cents per GB in today's market, can you possibly
|afford another new HDD that you could profitably use in your system in
|either a dual-boot configuration or simply as a secondary HDD? That really
|would be the practical & wisest way to go in my view.
|
|I'm assuming, of course, that your 160 GB WD is a PATA, and not a SATA HDD.
|As such, it should ordinarily be set up as Primary Master in your system.
|Apparently you're familiar with jumper settings and general HDD connections.
|So that the WD HDD would be connected as Master on the Primary IDE
|controller of your motherboard.
|
|There is, however, one minor complicating matter involving modern WD HDDs
|that you should be aware of. If, for one reason or another, there is no
|device connected as a Slave on the same data cable that is connected to the
|WD drive, the jumper setting should be set as Single and not Master.
|Actually with modern WD PATA HDDs - presumably such as the one you have - a
|Single setting is "jumperless". So just be aware of this.
|
|Assuming you do establish a dual-boot configuration with another HDD, it
|probably would be best if you connected/configured it as Secondary Master,
|although it may function (boot) without problems even if connected as
|Primary Slave. But generally Secondary Master is the preferred
|configuration.
|
|If, on the other hand, you use another HDD merely as a secondary drive for
|storage/backup purposes, then it really doesn't matter whether it's
|connected as a Slave on the Primary IDE channel or anywhere on the Secondary
|IDE channel.
|Anna
|
.

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