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On the hard drive slave drive does my windows XP have to be installed on it so I can have more hard drive space?

If not, what am I doing wrong by setting the jumper to slave and changing to 'auto detect' in the bios?

2007-01-15 10:47:25 · 4 answers · asked by darkcloud617 2 in Computers & Internet Hardware Other - Hardware

4 answers

hard drive space has nothing to do with where windows is installed ... if its a new drive maybe it needs to be formatted ...

2007-01-15 10:51:15 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

ok here is what it means.

Master first hard drive (is the boot up disk), slave is the CD Rom drive if both drives are on the same cable,

Now if you have two Hard drives on the same cable one as to be set as Mater and the second drive needs to be set as slave drive.

you can't have two hard drives set at master on the same cable or the computer will not know were to boot from

setting the bios to auto detect just checks to see if there are drives connected to the computer and what they are, now if you set both drives at master it will not show any drives at all or if you set both drives to slave it is the same no drives...

So now do you understand you can only have one master hard drive on one cable IDE 1 or IDE2

2007-01-15 19:09:34 · answer #2 · answered by Carling 7 · 0 0

Windows Xp only goes on your Main HD - not your slave - your slave drive just needs to formatted to NTFS - if you have set the jumpers up right on your slave your computer should pick it up right away - right click and format it - you should not have to touch the bios unless your not running XP but a very old computer.

2007-01-15 18:58:42 · answer #3 · answered by Sly_Old_Mole 7 · 0 0

Depending upon your computer - boot it - look to see what to press - the Delete key, F8 etc to acces your BIOS or CMOS settings. You will find a choice that mentions the slave etc. Using a slave is unusual, but you can alter settings here. If your slave is a CD or another HD, you cannot change the size of this. BUT if you boot from your normal or MASTER HD - leave it as is. You are using the max space that you have. You can check this by using FDISK from a DOS mode.

2007-01-15 18:53:44 · answer #4 · answered by geoffgilsey 3 · 0 0

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