How do I add a second hard drive to my computer for pure storage ?
 

Hey people, I've upgraded video cards, sound cards, ram, and hard drives in computers before, BUT I never rigged up a system with 2 hard drives, so now I ask the question to all of you.

Rite now, on my system, I have an 80 gig hard drive running everything on my system and I wanna pop in an older 60 gig hard drive in as just a storage drive. It currently has my operating system and old files on from before I upgraded to my new drive.

So, my questions are, for one, when I add the drive, what do I set the jumper as, slave ??? AND do I change my main hard drive to master AND then once it's all setup, I just go into windows explorer and right click and format it there OR do it some other way.

I know that these are stupid questions, but like i say, I never dinked with this stuff before, I'm only a webmaster and basic upgrader, ha ha ha. I just wanna make sure that I don't fuck anything up.

yeah. set the second to SLave . ..put your master hd at the end of the cable. the slave in the middle.

Plug it the fuck in.

And never had two hard drives? Jesus, what is this? 1990?

2494 posts....... And only one hard drive. I think I have three last time I checked.

I haven't done this for a long time, but shouldn't your 1st h/d with the OS on it be primary master, cdrom primary slave, and the backup drive be secondary master?

Hell, I'm not even that technical, and I got a RAID setup in my PC right now.

Next lesson tonight: how to use a light switch.

ROFL, ha ha ha, yeah, poke fun at me, I figured that'd happen. Well, who needs 3 hard drives when you got a cd burner :)

Heck, I've been a webmaster for over 6 years now and I've always had just one hard drive, ha ha ha.

I'm pretty sure that I can do it myself, BUT I just figured that I'd make sure that I don't fuck anything up by getting my battle plan backed up before I go in.

1st h/d with the OS on it be primary master, cdrom primary slave, and the backup drive be secondary master?

Alot of systems need to be set up this way as that is how they read from the bios. Just don't forget to go into CMOS to tell the thing what you did! ;-)

Faster and simpler to pop the old 60 in as master to reformat and repartition it. Break it up into different drives for faster defragging as well. Fdisk is the best way since you may forget or lose the disk managers that come with the HD's. Some of them plain aren't worth using. (Unless you have Partition Magic)

We have several backup systems with 4 hard drives in our network. It makes for interesting evenings looking for something when you forgot to dbase a set of files. :helpme

Just followed instructions in the manual?

Thank you very much, that's the kind of stuff that I needed to hear :)

Also, thanks to the rest of you that gave me good information.

For the rest of you guys that made me feel like a retart :321GFY ha hah ha.