Can you help with installing second hard drive?

Question

I currently have an 80 GB hard drive in my good computer. I am taking my 12 GB gard drive from my old computer. I want it to be a slave. How do I make it a slave? Don't I change the jumpers or something? If so, how do I do that and where are they?

Answer 1

OK, at least you know what you are talking about. Unplug the computer from all electrical sources or you may get shocked! There is a cord that is hooked into your first hard drive. That is the master. There should be another cord just down from that is either labeled slave or have a black tag that's on a white tag. That is the slave. Hook your second hard drive into that. Then there should be another cord that's hooked into your hard drive that's clear and has the colors red, black, and yellow on it. Find the one that says the number two on it. (I forgot what the letters are, but just find two.) Hook that into the second hard drive, put your case back on, and you should be in business. If not, unhook the second hard drive and just be without it.

Answer 2

Hello there! Yep you need to make it slave. As my rule-of-thumb, I make my biggest hard drive (hdd) the master and the smaller hdd my slave. That will create the most efficient and optimal performance. On most of the hdds, you can see a label with the hdd's name and model # etc. On it as well, it should show a jumper diagram of how you would set your hdd to (CS cable select, Master, Slave, or NC no connection/default single).
Set your 80 GB to master, (or master with slave, for some hdds), and your 12 GB to Slave (or CS would work too). Now, you have to set your cables. Your IDE (flat cable from hdd to motherboard), needs to be plugged into both your pri and sec hdds. Most cables i know of have three plugin connectors. There is a middle one that is close to one end of the cable, that closer side of the two connectors will plug into your hdds and the other end to your motherboard. The end connector is your primary, and the middle one is your secondary. Make sure this is done right or you won't see your hdds. Some cables connectors with a little notch in the middle of the plug, so that way the cable only goes in one direction into the mother board or hdd. If not, the RED stripe one the cable will always be next to the hdd's power plugin.

Note: If you reboot the computer and your hdd's doesn't come up, and you know you set your jumpers correctly, try putting the RED stripe facing away from the power plugin. Some cables are fickle.

Now reboot and it should work!

Hope this helps!

Answer 3

You got it. The jumpers are little (usually black) connectors on the back of the drive between where the power plug goes and where the data cable goes.

If you look on the sticker on top of the drive there should be a small diagram showing which to pins the jumper should cover to make it a master, slave or CS (cable select, skip that one).

And make shore the slave drive is plugged in the same data cable that the master is. Hopefully the PC will pick up on the new drive at boot-up.

If not, you may have to hit "DEL to enter setup" (or whatever message your PC flashes when you first turn it on). Look for an auto-detect hard drive option.

Here's some pics:

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Answer 4

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Answer 5

must change jumpers on both hard drives