Question on installing second hard drive on XP Home?

[Terry]

I am installing a second hard drive in WindowsXP Home already have the
primary
hard drive in and would like to know how to set up the hardware and
software
settings for the additional drive?

If you know some web page or pages that have the answer I would really
appreciate it.
Thanks:Terry

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Hi Terry,

Usually there are good diagrams with the drive in the box. Essentially, =
you are probably looking at adding it as a slave to one of the available =
ide connectors. All you need to do is set the jumper in the proper place =
(again, this is diagramed in the manual and on the back of the drive), =
connect the ide cable and any available power connection. Install it in =
an open drive bay rack with a couple of scews and walla, you're done. =
Once up and running again, right-click "My Computer", choose manage and =
use this utility to partition and format the drive for use.

Here is a page from pcmech describing the procedure:
http://www.pcmech.com/byopc/step/13/

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers aka "Nutcase" MS-MVP - Win9x - =
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Associate Expert - WinXP - Expert Zone -
www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
Win98 Help - www.rickrogers.org

"Terry" > wrote in message =
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> I am installing a second hard drive in WindowsXP Home already have the
> primary
> hard drive in and would like to know how to set up the hardware and
> software
> settings for the additional drive?
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> If you know some web page or pages that have the answer I would really
> appreciate it.
> Thanks:Terry
>

[M. Rajesh]

Hi,

Though there are documents for this purpose, I recommend
not to try them yourself as this could damage your
existing hardware and even mess up the configuration of
your PC. I recommend you to approach any hardware expert
who will configure the jumper on your hard disk and make
it the slave disk and then do the formatting on the new
hdd and then help you with the final setup.

Regards
M. Rajesh
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>
>I am installing a second hard drive in WindowsXP Home
already have the
>primary
>hard drive in and would like to know how to set up the
hardware and
>software
>settings for the additional drive?
>
>If you know some web page or pages that have the answer
I would really
>appreciate it.
> Thanks:Terry
>
>.
>

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