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Old May 9th, 2003, 02:54 PM
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Connecting 2nd harddrive on same cable..
Hey, I have a WD 80GB harddrive right now. I have a second one that's the same as the one I'm using now, I want to connect the second one on the same IDE cable and my question is how would I install it. I'm pretty sure adding a second hd is called slave and the original is master. Well how would I install and configure this slave one. After I connect the pins and power, what do I do next. Will it automatically find it and I can start using it or what. Also, I have to set the jumper on the hd to slave, how do I change it to the one I need because I see 3 different choices. Thanks a lot guys
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I don't know about that particular drive but I belive it should say on the top of the drive how to configure the jumper. From there slap it on and boot. Check to make sure it all get detected and you should be good to go.
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I don't know about that particular drive but I belive it should say on the top of the drive how to configure the jumper. From there slap it on and boot. Check to make sure it all get detected and you should be good to go.


It has 3 different things. "Slave", "Master with Slave Present", or "Single or Master".

Which one do I need?

And after I plug it in and boot. Am I supposed to configure anything like format the drive or something?
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Your first drive that contains your operating system is your Master. Put that drive on the cable connector furthest from your motherboard. Connect your second drive(Slave) to the next position on the IDE Cable. Look at this link to set your jumpers:

http://support.wdc.com/techinfo/general/jumpers.asp

As soon as you turn your computer on go into your BIOS. Make sure that you have the first IDE channel Master and Slave set to Auto. If your slave is set to none, your computer will never know that it has a second hard drive. You also have to partition and format the second hard drive, you can do this with the WD Install disk. Set up you boot sequence to start with your floppy and the disk will autorun and follow the instructions from there.
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Follow the Dual Setup for the jumper config
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Your first drive that contains your operating system is your Master. Put that drive on the cable connector furthest from your motherboard. Connect your second drive(Slave) to the next position on the IDE Cable. Look at this link to set your jumpers:

http://support.wdc.com/techinfo/general/jumpers.asp

As soon as you turn your computer on go into your BIOS. Make sure that you have the first IDE channel Master and Slave set to Auto. If your slave is set to none, your computer will never know that it has a second hard drive. You also have to partition and format the second hard drive, you can do this with the WD Install disk. Set up you boot sequence to start with your floppy and the disk will autorun and follow the instructions from there.


Thanks for the info but a slight problem - I want to connect the second HD to the same cable that has my first one. The cable has a second connecter to connect a second HD. I'm pretty sure it's the same procedure as with using 2 different IDE connectors on the mobo right? And I don't have any disks that came with my HD because I got it wholesale. Any way I could do it without the floppy?
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Use your Primary IDE for your Hard Drives.
Use your Secondary IDE for your CD Drives.
Goto WD's site and download the Data Lifeguard tools...it contains the program to make a boot disk to format and partion your WD HDDs...or download Partition Magic 8.0 from Kazaa or another pier sharing site.
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Use your Primary IDE for your Hard Drives.
Use your Secondary IDE for your CD Drives.
Goto WD's site and download the Data Lifeguard tools...it contains the program to make a boot disk to format and partion your WD HDDs...or download Partition Magic 8.0 from Kazaa or another pier sharing site.


How would I use partition magic 8? I only want it to format and partition my second (new) HDD and not my master.
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Get into windows and run PM 8.0. Then you will be able to do whatever you want to the second HDD.
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