I Just Got This Hard Drive And I Am Trying To Add It As A Slave Drive To My Computer. What Do I Need To Do?

Question

As In What F? Button....Or The Whole Process...lol

Answer 1

When more than one hard drive is installed on a computer system, each drive competes for control of the computer. To allow both drives to work in harmony on the same computer system, the controlling (or startup) drive is designated the master drive and the other drive is designated the slave drive. You can change this designation. The following procedure applies to any PC-compatible computer.
Instructions:

1Step: OneDecide which hard drive will be the startup (master) drive. If this drive was the startup drive previously, or if it's a new hard drive, then the master drive designation will already be set.
2Step: TwoTo change the designation of a new drive to be a slave drive, skip to step 4.
3Step: ThreeTo change the designation of an existing drive to be a slave drive: Turn off the computer, unplug the power cord, remove the drive from its drive bay, and disconnect the drive from its power cord and ribbon cable.
4Step: FourCheck the hard drive documentation or the label on the drive itself for master/slave jumper settings.
5Step: FiveFind the jumpers on the circuit board of the drive. Jumpers are plastic plugs with metal sleeves that form a circuit between a pair of pins. Jumper locations are labeled on the board with a J followed by a number (such as J20).
6Step: SixUse tweezers or very small pliers to remove or reposition the jumpers to the configuration shown in the documentation or on the disk label.
7Step: SevenInstall (or reinstall) the hard drive in the computer. (See "How to Install a Second Hard Drive.")

Tips & Warnings

Jumpers are very small and easy to lose. Hold your hand over the jumper while removing it to keep it from jumping too far.

Store jumpers in a small plastic bag for future use.

Always disconnect the power cable from the computer before handling the drive to prevent electrical shock.

Always ground yourself and your tools by touching a safe metal surface (such as the computer cover or frame) before handling the hard drive to prevent damage to the electrical components.

Avoid touching the pins with the tweezers or pliers to keep from bending the pins.

Overall Things You'll Need

Eyebrow Tweezers
Hard Disks

Answer 2

Ok first you need to find out what type of HD it is, SATA or IDE (ATA)

If its SATA, thats easy, just hook it up to an empty sata port on the motherboard.

If its IDE (ATA) then you have to move the jumpers on the HD.
If you are looking at where the IDE ribbon connects to the HD, there will be a small, probably 3/4 x 2 pin area where there are jumpers. If you look on the top of the hd, it should give you the pins to put the jumper on. Look for the slave setting.

Then once you get into windows, go here (this is for SATA and IDE)

START > SETTINGS > CONTROL PANEL > ADMINISTRATIVE TOOLS > COMPUTER MANAGEMENT >
STORAGE > DISK MANAGMENT(LOCAL)

You will see on the lower right of the window, a list of your drives. There will be one that says "UNALLOCATED". Thats the empty one.

Right click it and select initialize. Follow the process, its pretty simple then youre good to go. Go to mycomputer to acess the drive. Good luck to ya. Any questions? [e-mail]

Answer 3

Adjust the jumpers on both the HD that is in your system now, and the new one.

Plug it in, assuming you are running Win2K or greater, it should find it and install it requiring one reboot.

If it is a brand new HD, ti may need to be formatted once windows reboots, but you will know that soon enough.

Answer 4

You will need to connect it as a slave drive and change BIOS settings. From http://fixit.in

Answer 5

there is lots of things wriiten on ur harddrive try reading the signs for jumper setting. jumper setting to slave will do the job .

Answer 6

Formatting the Dell force with erase the records on the partition you format. merely upload the Dell force to the Sony device and boot it up. it may boot off of your Sony force without lots of a difficulty. After each and every thing lots up you may circulate the Dell force records over to the Sony force. then you definately can format the Dell force and use that as a secondary no longer consumer-friendly force.