how can you install a slave drive on a comp. and how can I put a hard rive on another motherboard?

Question

I ve tried to switch hard drives on two computers but it doesn't want to load up anything. how can I make it work on another mother board

Answer 1

Check the hard drives. Normally their will be a little plastic tab that you can move to different sets of jumper wires at the end of the hard drive. These determine whether a hard drive is consider the master drive, a slave drive, or is assigned master or slave depending on which connector on the cable it is attached to. There will normally be either a small chart or some labels by the jumpers that show where the tab needs to be for the drive to be master, slave or cable select.

Record the settings for each drive. Then set the tabs to match the setting of the old drive. (Meaning if the drive in computer A is master, and the drive in B is cable select, the set A to cable select and B to master. Then swap them, putting them on the same connector the old drive came off.

Hopefully then the PCs will boot up with the swapped drives

Answer 2

I assume you are using ATA hard drives.

There is usually two IDE controller cables.. one is the primary and the other is the secondary. For each cable, there is two slots - a master and a slave.

You can install an additional hard drive into the primary-slave position. Make sure that the hard drive jumper has been set to slave or cable select. Or you can put it in on the secondary positions.

If you want to use the hard drive on another computer, and you want it to be the first one booted, you can put it in the primary-master position.

Answer 3

first you need to format the second harddrive and make shore it's in slave mode thats at the back of the harddrive just in case.
To format the second harddrive go to my computer right click on the second harddrive and format it easy peasy