can anyone tell the procedure of connecting two hard disks on a single PC?

Answer 1

http://www.g4tv.com/screensavers/features/29084/Add_a_Second_Hard_Drive.html

Answer 2

It's pretty basic.
First you need to determine which hard drive is the 'master'. It should be the one with your operating system on it. Odds are good it's the one you are using now.

On the top of your two hard drives should be a diagram showing the jumper settings. These refer to the pins on the front of the hard drive. Most hard drives have a LARGE number of pins on the left, four large ones on the right, and about 10 in the middle. The diagram refers to the pins in the middle.

Where the diagram shows two pins connected, that means you have put the 'jumper' over the two, connecting them.

There is a good chance your hard drive has a jumper, often set sideways. If not, you will need to purchase one per hard drive.

The jumper is a small piece of (mostly) plastic, shaped like a U.

Set the jumper so one hard drive is the master, and the second the slave. These setting may be different, based on the make and model of the hard drive.

Once this is done, attach them both. (i.e. plug in the other two sets of pins mentioned above.)

When you turn on your computer, it SHOULD recognize the second hard drive automatically. If not, (and assuming neither is defective) the trouble shooting should begin with the jumper settings, and the cable (the plug over the 47 or so pins) Make sure this isn't upside down. Not sure why upside is even possible, but it has been known to happen.

If there is still an issue, make sure your bios is set to auto detect hard drives.

To do think, press F8 on boot up. This will get you into the bios. Be VERY careful in there!!! Also be sure to save when coming back out.

Hope this helps...

Answer 3

First and formost, make sure your computer is shut off, and that you are grounded to prevent any damage to your comptuer. Install each hard disk in your computer. Make sure one of the hard disks is set to be the primary, and the otherl disk to be made the secondary. Plug the hard drive cable, (or cables if you decide to use different cables for each hard drive), plug the same cable(s) to the hard drive socket in the motherboard, and re-boot your system. It helps to have a book about your motherboard about your comptuer systlem. I know how this is done because I am responding to your question with 2 hard drives on my computer.

Answer 4

If internal you just connect the power supply cord to each one and the twisted cable's far end goes to the main harddrive and the middle cable goes to the second one. Not actually a cable but a gray looking beltlike thing. Make sure the red strip is to the right and that should do it. Can't do it wrong because as soon as it is done right, you will hear the second harddrive and see it on your computer.

Answer 5

Drive 1-This should be your main drive, or "Master". This is where your Operating System will live. There is a small jumper on the rear of the hard drive and it should be placed in the "MA" position.

Drive 2-This is your "Slave". This drive will be used for storage or backups. Set the jumper on this drive to "SL" position. Both drives are on one IDE ribbon wire and go to the primary plug on the mobo. If you are using SATA hard drives then each drive will have it's own wire to the mobo.

Answer 6

There is a jumper/shunt that configures the hard drive as master or slave. First one, if only one, is always the master. Second one is slave # 1 and third one is slave # 2....like that it goes on. You need to put the jumper at the appropriate location.

Answer 7

There are dip switched on the back of the hard drive. One must be the master drive and one the slave drive. Then go into your BIOS and tell it the same.

Answer 8

open the tower and the cable thats connected to the hd(harddisk) should have another connector make sure the hd is set to slave look in the book for the settings and how to set it then connect it and ur done