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I bought a computer at a second hand store,and it has Xp home
on a 4gb HD. i put a 40GB HD in it and it says it it a dif Hard Drive.
Ive checked and it seems you cant move the OS to a diffent Harddrive so i was wondering how to make these Hard Drives,
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2007-02-14 03:51:57 · 1 answers · asked by Matthew D 3 in Computers & Internet Hardware Other - Hardware

1 answers

You can install the 40GB HD as a slave to the 4GB. The hard drives have two connectors, a flat ribbon cable and a 4-pin power cable. The ribbon cable will have 3 connectors, one to the IDE controller on the motherboard, one to the master hard drive, and one in the middle for a slave hard drive. See if the 40GB drive has a jumper for master/slave/cable select and set it to cable select, install it on the middle connector of the ribbon cable, and attach an unused 4-pin power cable.

2007-02-14 05:58:01 · answer #1 · answered by Fix My PC Mike 5 · 0 0

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