flashbackagain Posted January 23, 2004 Report Share Posted January 23, 2004 I have just bought a 80g hard drive to add to my system.I have a 120 g already installed and partitioned.Was trying a search in the forum on how to install the 2nd drive but came up blank (maybe I'm not using the search properly?)..Is it straightforward for a novice to do?If someone could point me in the direction of a link on "How to"...I have xp pro and the drive came as OEM... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Posted January 23, 2004 Report Share Posted January 23, 2004 Turn Power-OFF...Open up your PC Case...Locate the currently installed HDD...Locate a spare IDE connector upon the IDE cable that is currently installed.This spare connector is where you will connect your new HDD to....Now look on your HDDs shiny surface for configuration settings...Look for Slave and Master, note the positions for jumpers, set the jumpers accordingly, set it worng will casue complications. The jumpers are on the back of the drive, litte fiddly things they are...Your new drive, set it as a SLAVE...Now connect it to the spare IE connector on the cable...Bung your hard drive and secure it down...Connect a spare power cable to power the HDD...You can leave the side panel off for now...Connect everyhing up and power on...You [generally] should see your HDD recognised on the BIOS screen...Boot through to Windows...Now click Start, Run, Type: diskmgmt.msc and click OK...Right click "Disk 1" and choose initialise...You can now use your new hard drive...Formatting is easy... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flashbackagain Posted January 23, 2004 Author Report Share Posted January 23, 2004 If I am right ,the ide cable is coming from the dvd drive to the hard drive,then the motherboard,then up to the cd drive with the spare at the top....Can I move these down a step so that I have a spare nearer to the bottom where I need it?According to the reading on the hard drive,the first jumper beside the power input (1)is for limiting the drive capacity to 32 gbytes,nothing stated for (2)(3) is for cable (4) is for master Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nellie2 Posted January 23, 2004 Report Share Posted January 23, 2004 Powerless......... what can I say!!! Wonderful :D The only thing I would add is that eyebrow tweezers are great for fiddling about with jumpers!! ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flashbackagain Posted January 23, 2004 Author Report Share Posted January 23, 2004 Don't have any eyebrow tweezers nellie,and the vice grips do seem a bit on the large size :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Posted January 23, 2004 Report Share Posted January 23, 2004 If I am right ,the ide cable is coming from the dvd drive to the hard drive,then the motherboard,then up to the cd drive with the spare at the top....Can I move these down a step so that I have a spare nearer to the bottom where I need it?According to the reading on the hard drive,the first jumper beside the power input (1)is for limiting the drive capacity to 32 gbytes,nothing stated for (2)(3) is for cable (4) is for masterWell draw what you see for reference, take a picture even.Now you have a setup and introducing the new drive, you will [dont have to] have to move things.As you have two hard drives, you might as well connect them to the same IDE cable.Connect the dvd and cd drive also on the other cable.Make sure MASTER and SLAVE and set.If lenght of cable, position of components is tricky; then just rearrnage to fit.What hard drives do you have?Note: at the moment you have your 120gig drive and dvd mastered and slaved together. cd drive mastered and you could just slave up the new hard drive to this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Posted January 24, 2004 Report Share Posted January 24, 2004 From a PM:My cd dvd and hard drive are all on the one IDE cable,I thought all I had to do was connect the new hard drive to that as well??My 120g is a Maxtor 7200rpm..The 2nd is an 80g seagate 7200rpm also.Gigabyte GA-7N400 PRO2...I will have to leave this for tonight Powerless (doing my head in)..Thanks for all your help and time on the subject,maybe I will get my head round it after a nights sleep on it?OK, it seems you have a combined CD/DVD drive? In which case your HDD and combined drive are on the same cable? (i was thinking you had seperate drives)You can connect your other HDD to the other cable. Set it as MASTER...Reference:Maxtor |Interactive ATA installation guideSeegate | Here Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flashbackagain Posted January 24, 2004 Author Report Share Posted January 24, 2004 My mistake..my cd and dvd are seperate..They are connected with my hard drive on one IDE cable..As far as I can see the floppy is in a connection of it's own...Does this pic mean the drive is set to slave without a jumper? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boris Posted January 24, 2004 Report Share Posted January 24, 2004 Correct - in this example no jumper means slave. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flashbackagain Posted January 24, 2004 Author Report Share Posted January 24, 2004 Got something right then!! :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boris Posted January 24, 2004 Report Share Posted January 24, 2004 My mistake..my cd and dvd are seperate..They are connected with my hard drive on one IDE cable..As far as I can see the floppy is in a connection of it's own...Does this pic mean the drive is set to slave without a jumper?There should be 2 IDE sockets on the motherboard - each one of which can support 2 devices. One socket has an IDE cable to which your current 120 gig H/D is already connected and there should be a spare connector on that cable for your new 80 gig as well The other socket should also have its own IDE cable to which are connected your existing DVD and CD drives. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flashbackagain Posted January 24, 2004 Author Report Share Posted January 24, 2004 That's what I found strange,my floppy is the only thing in the other connection..The cd drive,dvd and 120g hard drive on one IDE cable to one connection Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boris Posted January 24, 2004 Report Share Posted January 24, 2004 There are normally 3 sockets to connect drives to in total. The floppy one is usually separate from the other 2. These 2 adjoin each other, and may look like one - but are separate if you look carefully. Different colours ? - blue and black/grey ?What motherboard is it ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flashbackagain Posted January 24, 2004 Author Report Share Posted January 24, 2004 Gigabyte GA-7N400 PRO2..Just having a look.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boris Posted January 24, 2004 Report Share Posted January 24, 2004 Your IDE sockets are coloured green and white ?Floppy socket is the black one ? next to the ATX power conector Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boris Posted January 24, 2004 Report Share Posted January 24, 2004 You've also got a pair of green IDE sockets together in the corner - probably to be used for RAID ?Picture here :- http://tw.giga-byte.com/Motherboard/FileLi...pro2_10_big.jpg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flashbackagain Posted January 24, 2004 Author Report Share Posted January 24, 2004 I've got it wrong :( Green one is going to hard drive then dvd drive.White is going to cd drive plus spare... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boris Posted January 24, 2004 Report Share Posted January 24, 2004 Connect your DVD drive to the spare one on the CD cable.CD should be master, DVD slave.This leaves you a spare connector on your H/D cable. OK ?Got to go now - off to bed :D Yaaaaaaawwwwwwwwnnnnnn ! Night. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flashbackagain Posted January 24, 2004 Author Report Share Posted January 24, 2004 Thanks boris,I was going to bed at 12!! night.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flashbackagain Posted January 24, 2004 Author Report Share Posted January 24, 2004 Got drive in :blink: When I right click on drive I get 3 options,convert to dynamic disk,properties or help...no sign of Initalise?Have I messed up? (again) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flashbackagain Posted January 24, 2004 Author Report Share Posted January 24, 2004 :whistling: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Posted January 24, 2004 Report Share Posted January 24, 2004 No it's OK your given "convert to dynamic disk" as your using XP PROhttp://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=309044Just right click the long black line and format the drive or partition if you want. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flashbackagain Posted January 24, 2004 Author Report Share Posted January 24, 2004 Should I select simple volume? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Posted January 24, 2004 Report Share Posted January 24, 2004 Its up to you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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