Re: Adding a HD

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Mickey Mouse wrote:
> Phil,
> There were no jumpers on the drive so using a seperate ide cable I
> plugged it into IDE2 on the mobo. The bios sees it ok but as a
> master. I formatted it and rebooted ok. Disk manager shows the
> drive at 127.99gig with 50.32 unallocated. Being inexperienced I
> ask, is connecting a second drive using a seperate cable into a free
> IDE socket (ide2) as I have adding a second MASTER or should it be a
> SLAVE?
> Mickey
>
>
>
> "Phil Jones" <someone@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:dqprk5$n9b$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> I'd set it to slave, and add it in (assuming you are using the same
>> IDE cable). If you don't know what the jumper pattern is, WD would
>> have this info on their web site.
>>
>> Once this is done, BIOS and W will recognise the drive.
>>
>> Cheers, Phil
>>
>> "Mickey Mouse" <mariogerada@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>> news:43d0414e$0$30771$afc38c87@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> I have a WD 200GIG Hardrive in my old machine. Mobo died.
>>> The hardrive was formatted to C: drive (no partitions)
>>> I want to add this drive to my new system
>>>
>>> My new system uses a K8 Triton Series Mobo. (Gigabyte Ga-k8nsc-939.)
>>> And dual Core AMD,Athlon(k7) processor. Sysyem is running Windows
>>> Home + SP2 With a 400gig Wd HD formatted to C and D drives (200gig
>>> each). I want to add the hardrive from my other machine who's mobo has
>>> died. to my new system as a slave (E: drive) Will windows or bios
>>> automatically recognise this drive or do I need to remove or set
>>> the jumper to slave. I've been told all I need to do is remove any
>>> jumper and put it into the new machine and it will be recognised
>>> and all I may need to do is format it. Is this right?
>>>
>>> Mickey.

Then the jumpers were missing, you need to jumper the drive to make it a
slave. Since you didn't list the exact model Western Digital hard drive,
none of us can give you exact information. If you want more help, post back
with your hard drive data.
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