Is it possible to switch hard drives so a larger one is the master?

Question

A couple of years ago I installed a new 120 gig hard drive as the slave drive and left the much smaller 6 or 8 gig as the master. Now the smaller drive is so full my computer keeps freezing up. Is it possible to switch the slave to master and vice versa, and what is the proper procedure so I do not lose the data on the current slave drive? If I remember correctly, all data from the C drive (small master) was copied over to the D drive (120 gig slave).

Answer 1

You can do a clean install of your operating system on the 120 gig hard drive while the small one is still the master. I hope that it doesn't freeze up on you in the process.

To avoid that go ahead and clean up the small hard drive. Delete all your temporary files and any programs that you can't copy off the drive to the big soon to be master.

After you have loaded the operating system onto the big hard drive then change the jumpers and let the big boy do the big job and leave the small guy as a slave as you'll probably be able to wipe out the little hard drive and maybe just use it for certain programs all by themselves i.e,., Popcap games or something like that.

That small drive has done its work for you and time to give it a break. I'd think about investing in a new big hard drive in the future cuz if you've had it 2 years your probably getting it pretty full itself. You don't need to keep an entire copy of the old small hard drive on the big one as it will be duplicitous and unnecessary in the long run.

Dont forget to clean up as much as possible off that lil guy or he'll choke and you'll end up in a real bind then...

..........think about it.................

Answer 2

sure , on ur pc case , two ways to change from slave to master

1- motherboard have two slots 1 for slave cable other is for master
in this case just switch the cable

2- there is a small pin on the back of each hard disk , details on how to out the pin is on the back , changing the pin will change from slave to master . ( this case if both hard disks is on the same cable )

in both cases must change the reboot root for the windows to swap from each hard drive