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Combining sata hd with ide hd

  • 01-07-2005 8:02pm
    #1
    balkieb2002
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,839 ✭✭✭


    The "family" pc's hard drive was recently upgraded from 40gb to 80gb and i decided to put the 40 in mine for extra storage as i wasn't need in the the other pc.

    My problem is that I'm currently using a 160gb sata hard drive as my main drive in my pc and not to sure as to how i go about adding the additional hard drive as coming up with problems.
    My hard drive is recognised as ide 3(?) in bios with my dvd-rw as the slave with no ide master, so any ide drive i connect is recognised a master (and the boot drive)

    just looking to add the 40gb as extra storage as running low at the moment.

    thanks


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  • #2
    DemonOfTheFall
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,279 ✭✭✭DemonOfTheFall


    Did u make sure that if your connecting the drive to the slave connector that the jumpers at the back are set to slave ? Or if youre connecting to master set them to master. That's what it sounds like to me


  • #3
    angelofdeath
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,148 ✭✭✭angelofdeath


    surely just putting the 40gig and the dvd on cable select on the one cable should do the trick, no? and you can select in the bios the primary boot device


  • #4
    J-blk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,906 ✭✭✭J-blk


    Did you fdisk and format the 40GB?

    From your opening post, it seems this was the main system drive on the ol' PC so it would have an active system partition. When re-partitioned, the MBR will be wiped and theoratically, your system will look for the next available boot device, the SATA.

    However, optimally, you still want to have jumpers/connectors set up correctly and check your BIOS boot sequence. On an Award BIOS, this should be under "Advanced Settings".


  • #5
    Gyck
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 693 ✭✭✭Gyck


    surely just putting the 40gig and the dvd on cable select on the one cable should do the trick, no?

    That depends on if cabe select is supported on the motherboard. The HD will also transfer at the same speed as the DVD drive.


  • #6
    angelofdeath
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,148 ✭✭✭angelofdeath


    ah, ok, good to know


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  • #7
    balkieb2002
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,839 ✭✭✭balkieb2002


    Thanks for quick replys.

    Haven't touched the 40gb drive yet (it just sitting in drive bay of my pc with windows xp installed) but was gonna reformat it soon. Do i need to install or do anything else to this drive?

    i haven't gone near any of the jumper settings either as have to find docs for the drive to check out the settings for which does which.

    So i boot up with the ide hd then fdisk/format it, change jumper setting as well as bios boot options?


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