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installed a second harddrive
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Posted by: dmr
I installed a second harddrive and I think that i messed things up. I do have the orignal disk to the computer since it was a hand me down. My other ones motherboard went and just can't afford a new one now. Well this is what I did. I followed so directions on how to install a second drive. Well all went well until I tried to get the larger harddrive to be the Master. It just didn't read it. So I formated the larger one, and added windows XP to it. now I have two OS on this computer. Tryed to format the orignal drive to get rid of the other OS on the computer, but it said that it can't be done. So I tried to copy all of the folders over to the new harddrive well some worked and some didn't. I thought that it was going to be a easy job. But now I know why it's not. I've been at this all day trying to figure out things. I hope that you can make sence of all of this. And pray that you can help or direct me to someone who can at not cost??? Thanks DMR
Posted by: Ion Silverbolt
Check your jumpers. Your old drive needs to be set to primary slave, or secondary master if you decide to use it on the second IDE channel. The new drive should be set to primary master.
Also, depending on the model of hard drive, some have different jumper settings if you use more than one device on the channel. Western Digital hard drives are that way.
If the new hard drive is a SATA hard drive, you need to make SATA the first boot device in your CMOS. If you don't see SATA anywhere, select SCSI.
Posted by: dmr
I have tried to do that but it won't read the larger drive when I have it as Master drive. I think that I am missing something on it. Maybe a file that is needed to get it started?
Can I just keep the smaller one as the master drive?
Posted by: Ion Silverbolt
Most likely. It depends on your BIOS. Select HDD1 as the primary boot device instead of HDD0.
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