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adding a 2nd hard drive
I have a compaq computer with win xp pre-loaded. If I choose to add a 2nd
hard drive as a slave - how do I do this. This slave drive won't have an operating system --- right? After hooking it up as a slave will it just show up under "my computer" and be identified as a drive that I can now store data on? If it is connected via its own cable (not slaved) does this change things? mike |
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tuuf wrote:
I have a compaq computer with win xp pre-loaded. If I choose to add a 2nd hard drive as a slave - how do I do this. This slave drive won't have an operating system --- right? Right. After hooking it up as a slave will it just show up under "my computer" and be identified as a drive that I can now store data on? If it is connected via its own cable (not slaved) does this change things? mike You need to format it before you'll be able to see it in Windows. Download the floppy from the manufacturer's web site to format it and partition it. Or, if you bought a retail hard drive, the floppy should have come with it. Alias |
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Pick a tutorial from the list
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=install+slave tuuf wrote: I have a compaq computer with win xp pre-loaded. If I choose to add a 2nd hard drive as a slave - how do I do this. This slave drive won't have an operating system --- right? After hooking it up as a slave will it just show up under "my computer" and be identified as a drive that I can now store data on? If it is connected via its own cable (not slaved) does this change things? mike |
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"Alias" wrote...
After hooking it up as a slave will it just show up under "my computer" and be identified as a drive that I can now store data on? If it is connected via its own cable (not slaved) does this change things? You need to format it before you'll be able to see it in Windows. Download the floppy from the manufacturer's web site to format it and partition it. Or, if you bought a retail hard drive, the floppy should have come with it. No floppy or vendor software is required. Go to Disk Management (right-click on My Computer, then Management), and the unpartitioned/unformatted drive should show up. Partition it as desired, then format and assign drive letters. If you think you will EVER use it as a boot drive, make the first partition a Primary partition; I would use 10-20 GB for that. In the mean time you can use it for pagefile space. Then partition the rest as desired for data, apps, etc. |
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John R Weiss wrote:
"Alias" wrote... After hooking it up as a slave will it just show up under "my computer" and be identified as a drive that I can now store data on? If it is connected via its own cable (not slaved) does this change things? You need to format it before you'll be able to see it in Windows. Download the floppy from the manufacturer's web site to format it and partition it. Or, if you bought a retail hard drive, the floppy should have come with it. No floppy or vendor software is required. But it will work. Alias |
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"Alias" wrote...
You need to format it before you'll be able to see it in Windows. Download the floppy from the manufacturer's web site to format it and partition it. Or, if you bought a retail hard drive, the floppy should have come with it. No floppy or vendor software is required. But it will work. Most of the time. Not as often these days, but in the past, some vendors' proprietary drivers and formatting schemes were problematic when OS upgrades or machine swaps were attempted. |
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