installing second harddrive
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Chamo
, Jun 11 2007 07:43 PM
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Posted 11 June 2007 - 07:43 PM
#2
Posted 12 June 2007 - 08:06 AM
if your motherboard has an IDE (same thing as ata or pata) port on it then you can hook up that drive..you'd need an IDE cable and the standard molex power cable....if you've got 2 IDE ports on the motherboard then you can hook the HD up on one of those however you like....if it's only got one...and you've only got one optical drive (like a cdrom or dvd drive) then you can hook that ide drive up to an available connector on the cable that's going to that drive..make sure that you jumper the drive as cable select though if you do this...or better yet jumper one device as master and one as slave (end of the cable is master, center is slave) if they're both on the same cable...or both as master (and plugged in to the end of the cable) if they're on seperate IDE controllers on the motherboard
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