Second Hard Drive

rlogle · Post by **rlogle** » Tue Apr 09, 2002 12:56 am

My new computer is a Gateway 1.6Ghz P-4, 256 MB DDR RAM, 32 MB Nvidea Video Card, 40 Gig 7200 rpm hard drive and a 17" flat panel display. My old puter is a Compaq K6-2 @ 300 something 128 md sdram and a 10 gig hard drive. Now, my question. Can I reformat the hard drive in the old puter and pull it out, put it in my new puter and have it as another drive. Like say Drive E or something? How would I do it? What settings would I use? I just wanna use it for extra storage, not for a dual os boot. I wanna like use it to store movies or porn or something..LOL... Also, is there anything I can do with all the other stuff from inside my old puter? Any help would be greatly apprecitated.

Thor Walez · Post by **Thor Walez** » Tue Apr 09, 2002 1:55 am

plug it in as secondary master or primary slave, your priority.
Check jumpers telling th e drive 2 be master or slave!
Power up and if no auto detection is default, goto bios and detect it!
Then boot et voila there we go Label it e.g. e: or x: (for porn

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and format / use it!!!
*BIG DEAL*

-Thor

rlogle · Post by **rlogle** » Tue Apr 09, 2002 2:44 am

Ok, this brought up new questions. Do I need to format the drive before I take it outta my old puter?

Post by **YeOldeStonecat** » Tue Apr 09, 2002 5:37 am

You should wipe it totally clean, including removing it's active partition.....rebuild it in disk manager.

DaveNet · Post by **DaveNet** » Tue Apr 09, 2002 1:09 pm

You can do it a few ways...your motherboard has the capabilities of handling 4 hard drives. I would install the hard drive on the seconde ide as master or connect it to the first hard drive as a slave unit. on the back of the hard drive it will show you the way of setting master/slave configurations.
After you boot up, you PnP will detect the hard drive, foramt it, and youre up and running.