How to add wnother hard drive ?????

paul moore

Hey folks i need guidence on how to add another hard drive

make: maxtor (91301 u3)
its over 15gigs i think
theres a fecked up win 98 on it
i just want to use it as an extra hard disk,
any Help???

Sully

Well, putting it simply:

Open up your PC case (make sure all cables are plugged out).

Connect the HardDrive to an IDE cable (normaly the skinny grey cable coming from the CDRom to the Motherboard. Theres a connector in the middle of the cable).

Connect the power to the HardDrive. Normaly one with a small plastic head with coloured wires connected to it. Make sure u take of the protective cap then plug it into the power slot.

You will know by looking at the back of the HDD how the cables go in and where.

Just go easy and dont force it, last you want is to break it.

When thats done, just format it using the option in Windows. PC is dead slow at the mo, so I cant say for sure which one it is but I guess someone will get here before I do and tell ya

Hope the instructions were of some use. Perhaps someone can explain better!

paul moore

see its a hard drive from another pc....
whats the story with the jumper thing???

AnCapaillMor

paul moore wrote:

see its a hard drive from another pc....
whats the story with the jumper thing???

i'm presuming it's an IDE drives. You should have 3 jumpers, master\slave and cS(cable select), set it to either CS or slave. there should a 2nd connection on the cable to your original Hd. Put that connection into the back of the hd and hook up your power. check it in setups, then boot into windows. In windows go control panel\admin tool\ computer management and select disk management from that. That show your added, you'll then have to format it for your XP to see it.

paul moore

ok done that but its not listed there???only the origanal one is listed,
i got some info from here
http://www.maxtor.com/_files/maxtor/en_us/documentation/jumper_settings/style_a1.htm

AnCapaillMor

paul moore wrote:

ok done that but its not listed there???only the origanal one is listed,
i got some info from here
http://www.maxtor.com/_files/maxtor/en_us/documentation/jumper_settings/style_a1.htm

Not showing in disk management? reboot your system go into bios setups, should be F2 or del key to enter them. check system info and that will tell you what hds the board is seeng. see is it seeing both, could be your jumpers.

paul moore

yea ther both ther in setup ,think its them jumpers alright.......fecked id say!!!!

AnCapaillMor

if they're both in setups, jumpers are fine. the 2nd hd should show up as undefined without a drive letter. any chance of you taking a screen shot of the diskmanagement app and uploading it to imageshack.us