scooby nutter

Hello

I have a very small harddrive in my pc at the mo,hey 4gig!!!!.could i just add another one to save me transferring data from one to another.


I dont like the thought of losing my data thats on the current one if something goes wrong when im transferring the data over

Im running windows ME

Dunc

Rusty Festa

You can run a second hard drive either as a primary slave (on the same IDE cable as you main hard drive) or as a secondary master (on a second IDE cable)

It's usual though to have a CD drive which is usually set up as the secondary master

I would suggest buying a new HDD and setting that up as the master and installing windows 2000 on it as ME is about as good as a chocolate fireguard

Run your existing drive as the secondary and that way you don't loose your data

bigsinky

yep you can. i currently have 2 x 80 gig in my machine. you will need to set the jumpers on the back of the drives properly to get them to work. usually one is the master drive and one is the slave drive.

cheers

big sinky

scooby nutter

thanks for your help guys,guess i'll be buying one tomorrow

Sith

Or you can set the drives as Cable Select. Master / Slave decided on which cable header it is attached to.

200+Bhp

Bigsinky....with all that **** m8 I would have thought you needed a bigger drive than that

Wurzel

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I have 4 hard disks in my PC at the mo IDE and SCSI.

scooby nutter

Hello

yes got a drive,not too tricky to install and configure.
Got something called disk wizard which helped to set it up(me being a plumber and all that!!)

Roll on DVD-R drive

thanks guys

Dunc