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June 6th, 2004, 06:38 PM
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Installing 2 HDDs, 1 old & 1 new
Okay, I want to install two harddrives into my new comp, but one is the previous hd from an older system. I was wondering about the proper procedure to formatting the drive and installing it into the new system. The new drive is a Western Digital 80GB and the old one is a Maxtor 60GB, and it's been formatted before. Here's the main questions:
1)They're both IDE; should I set the new one to master and the old to slave, or do it cable select? 2)How do I format the old drive, it has Millienium on it and needs to be formatted, and install it correctly into the new system w/ XP Pro? Bonus)Also got an old DVD-Rom, should the new DVD-RW be set to master, the old to slave, or should they too be cable select? Your input is highly appreciated.
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June 7th, 2004, 07:31 AM
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Ok, you can use cable select but not all m/b support this. So i'd suggest setting one hard drive to master and one to slave. Put them on the same ide bus (same ribbon cable). The grey end is for slave and the black is for the master hard disk. (I think! I can never exactly remember but if it don't boot swap them around!)
For the dvd drives, it's exactly the same as above. Have a look when your computer boots, you'll see it check your ide drives and should detect them, if not then the jumper setting is wrong. To format the drives boot up your computer with your windows xp disk, and windows will automatically format your drive before it installs itself. To format your other drive that doesn't have the o/s you want to use, once installed open a command prompt and type format d: where d is you drive letter you want formatting. Hope that helps Rizla P.s After re-reading your post i see you've already got the o/s running you want, o just skip the bit about booting up the xp cd. Later
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June 7th, 2004, 08:07 AM
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In general, use master/slave, not cable select, you'll save yourself some headaches. As an alternative to using the command prompt to format, you can to into the Disk management area (under Control Panel->Administrative tools), and format/partition the disk from there.
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June 7th, 2004, 01:57 PM
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I thank you kindly gentlemen
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