Trying to add second hard drive.?

Question

I have a dell optiplex. I am trying add a fujitsu 6 gig hard drive as a second hard drive. I am not a omputer wiz, so I need some help. I have the fujitsu hooked up to the mother board. I am not sure if I have the jumper hooked up proper on the fujitsu. I also was told that I have to make sure the main hard drive is set up as the master. It has not jumper config. I am also told that i must make sure the ICP or ICQ or what ever is possiblly disabled. I am clueless on moat of this other that what the jumper cinfig is and how i have it hooked up. Can anybody help.

Answer 1

if the hard drive is on the cable with a cd/dvd the jumper is master hard drive cd/dvd slave if the hard drive is on the same cable boot hard drive set jumper to master other drive to slave or leave jumper off it slave on cable with cd/dvd cd/dvd jumper master hard drive jumper slave or leave jumper of BIOS should be set to AUTO DETECT for all
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Answer 2

Adding a second HDD is not a big problem,if you have some knowledge of tech issues. I recommend, as a previous poster has said, a professional.

To add a 2nd HDD, you must first configure the HDD as a "slave" drive. This is done through jumpers on the rear of the unit. Most drives are sold with the setting as "Master" from the factory. There should be some kind of instructions on the top of the drive or the owner's manual to do this.

If you cannot find the jumper instructions on the drive, you can go to the Fujitsu website and see if they have an owner's manual for download.

Most MB's have the IDE ribbon cable going to your primary HDD, with a second socket empty further up along the ribbon cable. You fix the 2nd drive in a chassis slot, and plug in the cable - the plug has a little cut-out on the bottom edge, so match the cut out to the receptacle on tthe HDD . Then plug in the power, its the little white plastic plug with 4 pins, the shape is contoured so you can't go wrong.

Now reassemble everything and turn on the computer.

Windows XP or even 98SE should see the unit, assign a drive letter automatically. It is much easier than in the days of early Windows or MS-DOS when one had to use Fdisk, etc and other kinds of stuff. Now Windows asks you all that in a conversational type dialog, there is no need to do anything with IRQ's.

For full details, go to the HELP section of Windows and enter adding a HDD, the info should be about the same as what I have mentioned but there could be differences depending on what type of computer and OS you have.

Good luck.

Answer 3

Is this ATA drives (suspect so since it's a 6GB). If it's an ATA, unplug your DVD/CD drive. Install your primary (in use) drive on the Primary ATA channel. Then add your 6GB on the Secondary ATA channel. Boot to the BIOS, and set drive recognition to auto. Does both drives show up in the menu?

If so, both work. If not make sure that ATA drive recognition is enabled (newer motherboards have double options now, to turn on and off RAID S/ATA, and if RAID ATA is enabled here, disable it. Testing strickly on Primary and Secondary ATA channels, no RAID).

If the Fujitsu has no prongs in the rear of the drive (by the ATA cable) for jumpers it's an auto select variety, and that usually means it selects to Primary as default. The only suitable way to use it is via the above route as two Master drives.

Please give us the motherboard model and make, so we can see what type you are using. Systems with one ATA channel will make testing multiple hard drive configurations more difficult.

Answer 4

its best to have your local computer shop set it up. as each drive model is differant, you have to configure your system to add drives and put in the proper icp, auto.bat ,etc.

Answer 5

http://www.fujitsu.com/global/support/computing/storage/hdd/faq/hdd_faqide.html
http://www.fujitsu.com/us/services/computing/storage/hdd/support/docs.html