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I have a old hard drive i would like to add to my current set-up as..
A slave drive.My new computer has a connector that says slave.
There is also a power connection.Looks like all i have to do is..
Hook up the hard drive,no jumpers settings,etc
My question is when the pc boots up will it automatically adjust..
To recognize the hard drive or change bios?
I dont know anything about bios or system set-up.
SATA has no concept of master/slave so if he has a connector labeled slave, I'm going to say its the middle connector of an 80 wire IDE cable.
You may need to go into the BIOS tell it there's a new drive there. You'll probably see something like primary master, primary slave, secondary master, secondary slave. If the computer is actually new, you'll probably only have one IDE interface. I'm surprised it even has that.
You may need to jumper the old drive to "cable select". That became more popular in the dying days of IDE instead of specifically jumpering each drive to master or slave. You'd set them both to cable select and the position on the cable determined their function.
Once the BIOS sees it, go to Windows Disk Management and partition & format the drive.
SATA has no concept of master/slave so if he has a connector labeled slave, I'm going to say its the middle connector of an 80 wire IDE cable.
You may need to go into the BIOS tell it there's a new drive there. You'll probably see something like primary master, primary slave, secondary master, secondary slave. If the computer is actually new, you'll probably only have one IDE interface. I'm surprised it even has that.
You may need to jumper the old drive to "cable select". That became more popular in the dying days of IDE instead of specifically jumpering each drive to master or slave. You'd set them both to cable select and the position on the cable determined their function.
Once the BIOS sees it, go to Windows Disk Management and partition & format the drive.
There you go. Escape does it again (seriously, do whatever it was that he just told you to do!)
is this an older computer? Well, then again, if it uses IDE it has to be at least a couple years old. If it is from, IDK, 2002 or earlier (correct me if I'm wrong guys) then it is going to be 40 wire, but anytime really after that it would be 80 wire.
I recommend setting both drives to cable select. Let the system sort it out.
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