trying to increase my storage space w\another HDD
2006-08-26 11:06:23 · 7 answers · asked by thrag 4 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Add-ons
easy ... get a EDI cable with master and slave ... then change the jumpers on the back of the driver as you want to use it ... (master or slave). then assign the IDE cable to each driver. After you install the driver you gonna have to format the driver with the operating system you are running in you computer, which you gonna have to go to the manufacture website and download the driver tool ... then run it into your computer so you can format the driver. you wont find a HDD icon on 'My Computer"
hope helps.
2006-08-26 11:20:56 · answer #1 · answered by CUERVO 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If it's all connected up and working okay then you shouldn't really need to do anything, Windows will automatically assign it the next available drive letter and you're good to go. If it's a brand new unformatted drive though there's a few things you need to do first to make it useable:
- Right-click on My Computer and select the Manage option.
- In the tree on the right hand side of the Computer Management windows go to Storage then Disk Management. All your drives should be in there, including the new one which will be showing as 'unpartitioned space' or something similar.
- Right-click on that new one and select to Format. Assuming you're running XP or 2000 then you want to go for the NTFS format type.
After the formatting finished, which could take a while, it should be ready to use.
If however you can't even see the new drive in there at all then something's gone wrong when you've connected it. Check the power and data connections on the drive itself and check what the jumper on the back's set to. Because this is a slave drive you want to set it to either Slave or Cable Select. If one doesn't work then try the other, some motherboards require either one or the other for some reason.
2006-08-26 18:17:10 · answer #2 · answered by Bamba 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A drive letter is automatically assigned to the drive.
If you want to change the drive letter, go to Control Panel, Administrative Tools, Computer Management, Disk Management.
Right-click on the drive. Choose "Change drive letter...".
2006-08-26 18:16:11 · answer #3 · answered by worldneverchanges 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You've got to format it and assign it a letter.
If it's already installed in your PC (2000/XP), right click My Computer and click manage.
Go into disk management, and you'll see the drive sitting there, probably marked as unallocated. Right-Click the unallocated space and create a primary partition, format it, and select a letter.
2006-08-26 18:12:37 · answer #4 · answered by arizonarubicon 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Your computer should shift drives names around and give your slave hard drive its own letter. I have two drives, makes for easy backup, leaving the main OS on one and most of my programs on the other
2006-08-26 18:13:34 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It will automatically get assigned a letter when it's installed.
2006-08-26 18:11:38 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
clean up my dear
2006-08-26 18:07:42 · answer #7 · answered by lins 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋