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| DJ_Laszlo |
Hey there
My brother just bought himself a new 120 GB harddrive, but I have no idea of how the heck to install it. Under WinXP you have to format it under Administrationtools in the Control panel, but he uses Win98, and there is no such feature in the control panel in this OS.
I was hoping somebody could help me out here
thx |
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| SevenSins |
if its a new drive it should be clean, so no need for format.
if it is 2nd hand then format it.
is it a master or a slave?
look on the drive it will show you where to set the jumpers, for a master or slave. (jumpers are lil black blockers that sin in the back of the drive) take a look you will see it. tiny black plastic blocks that sit round the pins
assuming its the same as your taking out.
take the back of the machine, unplugg ya old drive. paying close attention to where the leads go. plug new drive in.
put windows cd in ya rom
and away ya goooooo
i do have detailed instructions here i could scan in and send to you. if you want them |
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| DJ_Laszlo |
Well, I still have the old drive left, with the OS and everything on it...this new drive is only for extra storeage.
The bumpers are neither on master or slave, it's on cable select. |
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| SevenSins |
if its for a storage drive you shouldnt really put a windows system on it. it causes mayhem between the 2 drives. especailly if its 2 different operating systems and if your main drive fails it will automatically search for a booting sequence on your slave drive.
i know with xp you can run to different operating systems on 2 seperate drives but i wouldnt recommend it.
i am assuming that the other drive which will be your master, is set as so.
i am not really clued up on cable select. did it come with any info at all read that, i have only every really worked with jumpers. |
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| SuperFarStucker |
| quote: | Originally posted by SevenSins
if its for a storage drive you shouldnt really put a windows system on it. it causes mayhem between the 2 drives. especailly if its 2 different operating systems and if your main drive fails it will automatically search for a booting sequence on your slave drive.
i know with xp you can run to different operating systems on 2 seperate drives but i wouldnt recommend it.
i am assuming that the other drive which will be your master, is set as so.
i am not really clued up on cable select. did it come with any info at all read that, i have only every really worked with jumpers. |
Cable select works perfectly fine in most cases, especially if it's only a single drive. It basically detects the order the drives are on the cables, ocassionally with older drives you may need to set pins in the correct place (first drive on cable is master, second is slave).
I'm not exactly sure what you are trying to do here? Do you want the drive to just sit on the pc as a secondary drive or do you want to copy all the data from the current drive to it. Drives usually come with software to do that (copy nfo from current drive), but first you probably need to boot to a dos prompt and assign it a logical partition and then format it.
Your boot screen will tell you if you have ******ed everything up in the drive sequencing (master slave stuff) so if it doesn't yell at you you can assume that you just need to partition+format the drive. Careful you don't delete your master hds primary partition :) |
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| KilldaDJ |
| i had to set my second HD as a secondary master, it wasnt liking being set as a primary slave...little bastard... |
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| DJ_Laszlo |
All problems solved with Fdisk - one little issue remains though...The drive-letters have swapped. My OS is on C:, which is still intact, but the old D: became E:, and the new drive, which SHOULD have been E: is not D:
how do I change this? This problem causes a lot of conflicts since all my programs are installed on the drive that used to be D:, but is now E:
get me? (still keep in mind that this is win98 I'm working with, not XP) |
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| KilldaDJ |
| set it up in the system bios... |
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| DJ_Laszlo |
all problems already solved
thanks for your support
cheers |
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