Does anyone here know how to add an internal hard drive into a computer that already has a hard drive

[fireflytx 0]

I am trying to combine Brains computer and mine. I want to take his hard drive out of his and stick it in my computer that already has a hard drive. I already see where this is going, but besides the jokes can I have some serious answers. I think I know how to do this but I don't want to fuck it up.

Then can I just go in and format the drives separately and keeping all important information on the drive that is not being formatted at the time?

"Well behaved women rarely make history"

[mnealtx 0]

Set his drive to slave and hook it up. Transfer away!! (see, no jokes!)

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Mike
I love you, Shannon and Jim.
POPS 9708 , SCR 14706

[LisaM 0]

I am sure someone will be more thorough than me on this one, but adding one to an existing setup is eay. The drive should have come with tools to do that. Or you can just format it from the main drive. The main drive has the operating system on it so you don't need to go through all that.

I think..... it's been YEARS since I built a computer.

If neither drive you are using has an operating system that is a whole ohter ball of wax that I flounder through and cannot get to work the same way twice....

~ Lisa
~ Do you Rigminder?

[yardhippie 0]

If you format a drive all the info will go bye-bye. If youre taking two independed system drives and installing them in one system you will have two operating systems (XP, NT, 2000, etc) Mind you your system should boot from the drive that is now designated C: provided theres no changes to the default.

my advice would be to save all the desired information to some source (maybe the drive in your current system) then format the drive you install into one system leaving it free for storage only.

thats my .02...
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[LisaM 0]

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Set his drive to slave and hook it up. Transfer away!! (see, no jokes!)

Oh yeah do the slave thing. I knew I meant to tp more.....

~ Lisa
~ Do you Rigminder?

[Brains 2]

Please, PLEASE let me save and back up all my pictures before you decide to try this.

Never look down on someone, unless they are going down on you.

[fireflytx 0]

Yes the second drive is going to be just for storage. So how do I "slave" it. That is where I am getting lost. Do I just stick it in the second slot in my computer and plug the cord into it?

"Well behaved women rarely make history"

[skydiva1998 0]

Kim, I sent you a PM about this.

Brains, don't worry, it's really no big deal. Kev had both mine and his hard drives in his computer after mine crashed and it worked fine.

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[ifall 0]

There should be jumpers to set it so slave. They should be a set of pins near the end where the power is supplied to the drive. That is, its like that on a majority of drives. There is a plastic jumper that connects two pins at a time and on the top of the drive should be a diagram of which pins make the drive a slave.

[DJL 235]

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Yes the second drive is going to be just for storage. So how do I "slave" it. That is where I am getting lost. Do I just stick it in the second slot in my computer and plug the cord into it?

No, there will be a little cap that you slide onto some pins to set it as slave. Go to the hard drive website and dig from there. Directions for doing this are always provided with new drives so the documents should be available.

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[hookitt 1]

If it's set to CS (Cable Select) then yes, Just put it into the new slot. Turn on the computer and see if it worked... if not. A jumper will need to be moved.

If the IDE cable The Wide flat cable, is marked with a Drive 0 and Drive 1 Drive 0 is for the Master and 1 is for the Slave.

There should but a pin out diagram on the drive. The pin out diagram will have CS SL MA (Cable select, slave and Master)

The jumper is the tiny black square thing the sits on the pins near the power.

See where the jumper is in relation to the diagram. Pull the jumper off and place it on the SL pins.

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[fireflytx 0]

This is great there are no jumper pins. What the hell now

"Well behaved women rarely make history"

[mnealtx 0]

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This is great there are no jumper pins. What the hell now

Then it's by default a CS drive, if I recall correctly.

Mike
I love you, Shannon and Jim.
POPS 9708 , SCR 14706

[hookitt 1]

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This is great there are no jumper pins. What the hell now

Then it's set to Cable Select. Plug the second connection of the IDE cable and the power cable onto the drive and power on the computer. If the drive shows up in Windows Explorer... it works.

My grammar sometimes resembles that of magnetic refrigerator poetry... Ghetto

[Brains 2]

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Then it's set to Cable Select. Plug the second connection of the IDE cable and the power cable onto the drive and power on the computer. If the drive shows up in Windows Explorer... it works.

Tim, you realize i will probably be calling you tonight trying to figure out how to put my computer back together right???

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[Amazon 7]

Yes

[Brains 2]

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Yes

For the love of god woman, help her.

Never look down on someone, unless they are going down on you.

[Amazon 7]

Well you guys COULD come visit.. bring the puter with you.. jump .. hang out....work on the puter a bit. and I bet I could make that lil ole computer do things you NEVER thought it was possible to do

[fireflytx 0]

ok I am an ass it has jumper pins, I was lloking at the wrong drive. Where do I put the jumper

"Well behaved women rarely make history"

[Amazon 7]

Look on the drive.. there should be some diagrams.. OR.. go looking for your model of drive on the internet.. and go look at the manufacturers web site.. in support section

[fireflytx 0]

There is no diagram!!!

"Well behaved women rarely make history"

[mnealtx 0]

*edit* What the red one said up there....

Mike
I love you, Shannon and Jim.
POPS 9708 , SCR 14706

[Amazon 7]

what is the brand of drive.. and the model number

[fireflytx 0]

OK Everyone help it is a Western Digital model wd600bb-75caad

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