My old pc has 1 hard drive which of course has the os and other information on it, I have already taken my old hard drive out and the ribbon cable as well but now im finding it difficult to change the jumper setting to slave as its quite small to take out the plastic thing, also how do i connect my old hard drive to my new pc power supply and the motherboard?
Using my old computer is not an option as there was a problem with the os saying 'corrupt windows system32' so thats why i had to take out the old hard drive and didnt reinstall the os due to losing data. I got the ribbon cable that connects to the hard drive and motherboard so now how do i connect it as a second hard drive on my new Pc.
My old hard drive is a 'Segate ATA U Series 7 80 Gbytes ' and my new pc motherboard is a 'ASUS P5N32-E SLI' is there anyway at all to connect the old hard drive to the new pc and how?
I need detailed instructions on this please if you can and any ideas would help. thanks
2007-03-30 07:54:17 · 6 answers · asked by Jake S 4 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Desktops
Yes, you can do it. I don't have a lot of time right now but...
For power, use any of the D-connectors coming off the power supply. Then. . . .
Either connect your old cable to your IDE 1 Connector on your mother board (use the end connector for the HDD) or, Connect your old HDD to the center connector of the IDE cable that goes to your new hard drive. (this depends on which cable you have your CD drive hooked to and whether or not the cable can physically reach the HDD)
I use the seperate cable going to IDE1 with my setup.
Don't move the jumper to "Slave" unless you have older 40 conductor IDE cables. You probably have 80 conductor cables from the drives you are talking about. So, leave the jumper in the CSel (cable select) setting.
Go to your bios setup and do the auto detect for your drives.
IDE0 Drive 0 You want this one to be your new "C:" drive
IDE0 Drive 1 Either the old HDD or your CD, depending on which drive is connected to the center connector on the cable.
IDE1 Drive 0 Whichever drive you connect to the End connector of your second IDE cable
IDE1 Drive 1 Whatever you connect to the Center connector of your second IDE cable.
Sorry I do't have more time to elaborate, but this should get you there.
Take care,
Keith
2007-03-30 08:22:06 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The best way to do this is to set the jumpers on both hard drives to "cable select" or "CS". If the hard drives do not have the jumper diagram on the label, you should be able to locate this information on the company website.
The cable that connects the drive to the motherboard should have two hard drive connectors on it. Use the one on the end of the cable for your "master" or "boot" drive. You can then connect the 2nd hard drive to the connector that is in the middle of the ribbon cable. Normally, the power supply will have extra power cables for the hard drives. If not, you can get a "Y" connector from Comp USA or a computer store.
2007-03-30 15:03:46 · answer #2 · answered by Bob S 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
For the jumper, tweezers or small pliers work great. For the power, if you don't have any available molex (white 4 pin) connectors left you can buy a splitter at most computer/electronics shops.
You also need a IDE cable with 2 connectors, or depending on what is already in the system you may have a second IDE connector on the motherboard available. This is another item you can get at the store pretty easily.
2007-03-30 15:02:27 · answer #3 · answered by y2bmj 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1) old versus new Motherboard: make sure both boards can accept the same connection (IDE/ATA vesus SATA)
2) Assuming #1 is correct, you need a pair of neede-nose pliers to pull the jumper from your old HD and place it in the correct position for slave (look on the HD itself for a diagram)
3) Attach cabling with new HD as Master (assuming it has a boot partition) and your old as Slave
4) Assume your old drive will eventually fail, I would transfer everything off slave to a separate partition on Master (20GB minimum excluding the OS)
Good luck- contact me if you need assistance.
2007-03-30 15:00:44 · answer #4 · answered by RHJ Cortez 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Looks like your new motherboard only supports SATA drives so there's no place to plug in the old drive.
Two ways around this: get an external box that uses usb to plug into the computer, and the drive fits inside like http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=2501C&cpc=SCH for about $20
Or get an internal adapter, like http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=SIL3611&cpc=SCH so the drive can go inside. About $10
I've just giving samples of solutions here, not endorsing either ad.
2007-03-30 15:07:49 · answer #5 · answered by Jim 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
erm... im not sure i can help you much but there are little stickers on the hard drives that say where the jumpers should be to be master slave ect...
hope this helps as i know it can be very annoying!
2007-03-30 15:01:46 · answer #6 · answered by dale456654 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋