No, not an external hard drive.
2007-02-23 23:54:43 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Desktops
Yeah, not a problem. Get your second hard drive and look at the connections. You'll find a long multipin connection socket, a short connection socket with large pins, and a series of 4 double pins with 2 bridges. Look on the hard disk printed circuit board and you'll see 'master', 'slave', and 'cable' printed on the board. Change the master bridge to the slave position. Open your box and find your current HD. You should find an open space above or below it. Remove the plastic cover on your box covering the space and insert the second hard drive and secure in position with screws. The data cable to your current hard drive will have another multipin connector. Plug that into your new HD. You'll also find another power cable connector hanging around close. Plug that into the large pin socket.
Reboot your pc and you'll find you have another hard drive installed. Close your box up and you're away.
2007-02-23 23:58:02 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are a couple of ways you can connect additional hard drives to the CPU. Read on.
1 . If the motherboard has two IDE ports you can very well connect two internal hard drives.
2. The HDD cable that connects your HDD to the motherboard also has a connector for slave/secondary hard disk connector. If it has it - you will be able to connect two hard drives to one IDE port on the mother board (one as the master and the other one as slave). However - you will have to make a few adjustments in the jumper (little connecting switches) in come cases - see the HDD cover/casing for the details of settings.
Hope this answers your question.
2007-02-24 00:11:33 · answer #2 · answered by Ashish 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes. You need to set them up carefully in the following manner:
1. Set the BOOT hard drive as the Primary Master. This is done by setting the jumpers to "Master", and by making sure you plug the hard drive into the Primary cable, NOT the one that goes to your CDrom drives.
2. Set the other hard drive to slave by setting the jumper switches on that hard drive to slave. The hard drives should say which one is Master, Which one is Cable Select and which one is slave. Sometimes they just say, Ma CS SL, which, of course stands for Master, Cable Setect, and Slave respectively. Finally some computers require the jumpers to be set all at Cable Select, and you can try that if the Master/Slave does not work.
2007-02-24 00:01:49 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Easily done and you can install one yourself. First buy the new hard drive and it will come with all the directions you need. Buy a 7200 RPM drive and it will be fast. You might also look at the new drives from Seagate that have solid state memory integrated into them for even faster performance.
2007-02-24 00:00:21 · answer #4 · answered by bobweb 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes! thts not a problem at all. If u add another piece of add-on card u can have more hard drive, but two is not a problem at all.
Buy ur hard drive attach it to ur IDE cable n set the jumper to either cable select or to master slave n she is ready to rock n roll....
2007-02-24 00:05:05 · answer #5 · answered by Raj 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, most motherboards these days will support two hard drives. You can run them as separate hard drives so you have the security of a back-up, or as one big hard drive that will make it faster.
2007-02-23 23:58:56 · answer #6 · answered by =42 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-10-16 09:23:42 · answer #7 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes, the number of hard drives doesn't depend on the CPU, but on your power supply (the box that has a fan at the top-back side of your PC).
CPU is how fast your machine loads things.
RAM memory is how fast your PC reads things.
You can contact me for more information if you want.
2007-02-24 19:18:55 · answer #8 · answered by hih 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
yes you can i have 3 hard drives inside my PC keep first one just for your operating system then store your things on the other 2
2007-03-03 09:46:46 · answer #9 · answered by j m 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, you can have two HD's in one sys. One will have to be a master, and the other a slave hooking up on the same cable.
2007-02-26 16:03:19 · answer #10 · answered by TheSocaIronMan 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋