[cheyenne 09]

Hi Forum
I have never installed hardware into my computer I have just bought a new Hitachi deskstar internal hard Drive 250GB I also have a 120 GB Hard Drive that I am using just now. I know that one becomes the slave Drive but I dont know how to do this my computer is a dell 8300 with 512MB memory I have also bought an another 512 of memory can you help me install the hard drive and setup the slave please give step by step instructions any help would be great

Cheyenne 09

Edited by cheyenne 09, 06 August 2006 - 03:37 PM.

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[austin_o]

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[cheyenne 09]

Hi forum
I have connected my new hard Drive to my computer but the first hard drive doesn't have a ribbon but does have a blue cable going from the motherboard to the hard drive the second one got the ribbon 15 pin grey which i connected to my hard drive and then 4 four pin power cable when I put switch the power back on the second one doesn't appear what can I do to fix this any help would be great. Thanks again

Cheyenne 09

[austin_o]

Based on your description, sounds like your current hard drive (drive c:) is a SATA drive since you said it does not have a 40 pin flat ribbon cable like your new EIDE hard drive does. Is that correct? Or, are both of the hard drives SATA?

[pharaoh]

Based on your description, sounds like your current hard drive (drive c:) is a SATA drive since you said it does not have a 40 pin flat ribbon cable like your new EIDE hard drive does. Is that correct? Or, are both of the hard drives SATA?

Hi austin o
I think your right the main one is a sata so what does that mean can I still use the new one as the computer cannot find it second being an hitachi. Thanks you

Cheyenne 09

[austin_o]

You should be able to have both SATA and EIDE hard drives as long as your motherboard will support both. You need the access the bios and see if it sees the new hard drive. You may have to enable the EIDE.

[cheyenne 09]

Based on your description, sounds like your current hard drive (drive c:) is a SATA drive since you said it does not have a 40 pin flat ribbon cable like your new EIDE hard drive does. Is that correct? Or, are both of the hard drives SATA?

Hi austin o
I think your right the main one is a sata so what does that mean can i still use the new one as the computer cant find it the second one being the hitachi.Thank again

Cheyenne 09

[cheyenne 09]

Hi austin o
I just went into the bios and the drives in there is a sata primary drive and secondary drive off
primary master drive off primary slave drive off secondary master drive cd-rom device secondary slave drive off ide drive udma off or on which of these need to be off or on Thank again

Cheyenne 09

[austin_o]

If you have installed the EIDE hard drive on the primary channel, you need to enable that.

[cheyenne 09]

If you have installed the EIDE hard drive on the primary channel, you need to enable that.

Hi austin o
I am a complete novice at this so how do i enable it which One from the list i gave you do i enable thank for your reply.

Cheyenne 09

[Tru Techie]

go to bios. find eide or secondary drive or it will be labelled somethign like that, and enable it. then boot windows, right click on my computer and go to manage, then disk management, youll see ur second hard drive. and it'll be like undefined or something. right click on it and click new partition or something. partiton the WHOLE drive, and choose NTFS as format. and you can use it.

[austin_o]

Based on the options you presented I woud say primary eide master on and sata master on.

[cheyenne 09]

Hi tru Techie and austin o
I have just been back into bios and the options inside the drive configuration model unknown drive type off/auto capacity n/a I to make sure this is right before it all goes wrong. Thanks for both of your replys.

Cheyenne 09

[Tru Techie]

wait, so did u set it to auto? or wat/

[cheyenne 09]

wait, so did u set it to auto? or wat/

Hi tru techie
no i havent set it to auto is that what i should do now is it the master or the secondary drive i dont what to have any computer problems after setting it.thank again

Cheyenne 09