The second hardrive is already pluged in... Or can I use both?
2006-12-30 15:10:43 · 6 answers · asked by Jeb 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Desktops
With the information given, there are several options:
Option 1: 1st drive is smaller and there is no data on the 2nd drive
- Using a Symantec program called "Ghost", you transfer the entire contents of the 1st drive to the second drive. Ghost automatically resizes the partition to the larger drive. Then, you change the jumper setting of the drive to reverse their settings (master/slave). Boot up and carry on. It may not hurt to disconnect the original drive for a while, just to be sure that everything is okay before formatting it. (At the very least, it is a great backup.)
Option 2: 1st drive is smaller and there is data on the 2nd.
- If there is enough room, transfer all the files from the 2nd drive & verify that they are there. If there isn't enough room, backup the data off the 2nd drive onto a 3rd drive (an external USB/Firewire drive is handy for this). Once you verify that the data is safely backed up, you can do the process listed in Option 1.
Option 3: There is no critical data on either drive and you want just want to switch their position and do a fresh install of windows.
- Just switch the jumper settings on the drives. Boot off your OS CD (presumably Windows XP) and follow the instructions on the screen. Just be sure to choose the new drive as the destination, otherwise, you might find yourself running off of the original boot drive.
If you are in doubt and you have critical data on your system, it is best to have a technician do the work. It shouldn't take them much more than an hour, assuming that you don't have 300GB of data to transfer.
2006-12-30 15:33:31 · answer #1 · answered by lcoughey 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can use both as a data holder or for backups.But if you want to remove one all you have to do is take it out of your machine. Open the case, unscrew the drive and take it out of there. But most likely that is the one that has your operating system. So just make the new disc that you have now a slave to save your data.
2006-12-30 15:16:02 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can use both but you have to open up computer and set it that way, well maybe. Hard drives have little switches or pins in them that make them a master or slave drive or cable select. So you may need to configure this if you plug in both but yes you can use both.
2006-12-30 15:13:41 · answer #3 · answered by micaso1971 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
a million. i might recomend going the extra suitable $a hundred and fifty or despite and buying a clean motherboard and cpu yet...you're able to clean up this with the aid of removing the video card and dealing off the onboard pictures and then changing the default video output to agp or pcie and that would help ^^ yeah ... the corect agp or ddr ???? you particularly dont comprehend what your speaking approximately you shouldnt be doing this and btw the visual show unit must be pluged into the hot video card :
2016-11-25 02:01:36 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can use them both...i use one for my windows information,and use the other one to save any files I have that I am worried about losing at another time...i fully recommend that you keep both installed, and use one Just for backing up files.
2006-12-30 15:14:30 · answer #5 · answered by Crystaline 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can use both. If they are the old PATA drives, make sure the jumper is set to "cable select" on both.
2006-12-30 15:13:25 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋