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[BigDadday]

I just purchased another 20 gig Hard Drive and they are both 7200 rpm. I have formatted it and now installled it under my first one. The next part is my slight problem...

OK I connect the second HD to the same ribbon as the first but do I also have to connect another power source,white 4/5 prong,to it? Also is just a format all I need?

 

[Kruz]

Yes , Each hard drive needs It's own power plug...
Also set the jumpers on your drives to Master(for the main drive).
And Slave (for the second drive).

 

[Kruz]

Jumper location .....
When your done with that, boot up and go to your bios setup screen and make sure the settings are on auto detect.. it should detect the drive on booting up...

 

[BigDadday]

Great anwers but a question again. Which is that set on the bottom picture? Master? Then for slave it's across the top to?
Thnx alot it helps seing it. BD

 

[greenfreak]

It's different for each drive BD. I hate to say this, but the diagram on where the jumpers go are on the top of the drive. You may have to take one of them out a little to read the top.

 

[BigDadday]

Theyt're both maxtor 7200 rpm drives and the thibg is where is master and where is slave if I need the slave when I connect to the first?

Do I need a jumper on the second one when just adding it on like that or shall I take it off?

 

[Gonzo]

each HDD has 3 possible settings. Master/Slave/Cable Select. In the paperwork, if they are retail, is a pic showing the possible settings. If no paperwork/instructions, on the HDD itself, is MA/SL/CS. Set the drive you want to be the "C" drive to master, using the jumper & the other as slave. The ribbon cable will need to use the end connector as the master & the center connector as the slave.

 

[Kruz]

hope this helps

 

[BigDadday]

OK what I'm seeing are 2 jumpers needed for each and it only had one on them?

 

[Gonzo]

Some only require one

 

[BigDadday]

OK OKOKOKOKOKOKOKOKOK

I now have a 20 C drive and a 20 D drive so the next feat is to put another oS on D so next question is how do I get it to boot asking me which drive I want?

Thnx alot everyone

 

[s4]

What is the brand and model number of the hard drive?

 

[Kruz]

what two os's are you wanting to use?
What is your current "main"os?
do you want to do a "duel boot system?

 

[BigDadday]

Running 98se and want to try a win 2000 on the second.As to the Brand it is a Maxtor both Ultra ATA/100 and the models number I will have to look again as they are in the start up or on the drive itself but I'm getting ther altho I may just leave this as a drive to store my downloads on I still need the info about the other.

 

[Kruz]

Ok thats good... because you need to have win98 installed first with win 2k..
just run the setup program from the win2k cd.. it will give you two options for install (upgrade your current os).. or (start a new installation) pick the second one . during the install it will ask you where you want to install windows.. pick your second drive..EX: D:\Winnt.. after everything installs you will have a boot screen at startup asking which system you want to start.. windows 2000 or win 98...Good luck

 

[BigDadday]

Should D drive be blank/formatted which it is but a few files I put on it?

 

[Kruz]

I would move them over to your C drive, and then you can move them back after your done with the installition...OH one more thing...during the install it will ask you if you want to use FAT32 or NTFS for the drive... keep FAT32.. this way you wont to re-format if you want to get rid of win2k...

 

[BigDadday]

Thnx and until then hopefully the end for now.

 

[PostCode]

One for fury hehehe

fdisk /mbr

Install Linux.

 

[PostCode]

Your only issue that I see is the files you currently have in place on that drive. Ensure that when you copy them back over to the D:\ partition ao that they are located in the same directory in which they are currently located. For instance, if they are locate in d:\program files\<programname>, then ensure that you copy then back to that same location. You may have to create a directory for them (if you use Windows Explorer then you just copy and paste) but this is where the Registry is looking for them and expecting them to be located. That is, of course, if they are installed programs.

If it's just data, not to worry then. Just copy the contents of it to where ever you desire. On my XP install, I use the D:\ for a holding area of downloaded programs and data, i.e., programs I'm developing, websites, programs, cracks, I mean, licenses, etc...