How to install a second hard drive?
 

Hey Guys,

I have a computer, an Intel Pentium II that the mother board died (could see burned chips on board). In this computer I had a 10GB hard drive (master) and a 30GB hard drive (slave). I have since have purchased a new computer, a 3.0 Pentium 4 , 512 Ram, 80GB hard drive. I would like to install my old hard drives into the new computer to get the info out of them and into my computer. The problem I am having is that when I set the jumpers on the old drives to slave the new computer does not automatically see the new installed drives. It will not allow me to configure the BIOS to show that I am adding a new drive. Can some one tell me how to properly add another drive? Everything I've read thus far says that the system will automatically see the drive and configure it. I have not been able to get the new computer to see the drive. Will there be a problem with one of the old drives (the 10GB) having OS installed in the drive, I think it is 2000.
Thanks for the help.
rene

Rene,

As long as the jumpers are set correctly on the old hard drive the new computer should see the second hard drive as a slave and allow you access to it. Its being a boot drive or having 2000 should not be an issue.

Make sure your jumpers are set correctly and try it again. Did you try "adding hardware" after putting the drive in? You should not have to but it might work. What is the OS on the new computer?

Joe A

Joe,
The drive the was the slave in my old computer I left the jumpers alone since I know it was the slave in the old computer. It still did not work. I've also tried jumpering it to CS (cable select) hoping that the system in automatically see itl I am running XP in the new computer. I did try going to the "adding hardware", in the control pannel but it will show the new hard drive as a device. It shows the hard drive that the new computer came with. I've added hard drives before but they were new, not already loaded with information. I've also read something about maybe having to use a boot up disc?
Thanks.
rene

Rene,

You do not need a boot up disk and the fact that the hard drive has info on it does not matter. Am wondering if the hard drive is actually working or not and did it get fried in the old computer?

Do you have a computer repair store around? Might be worth taking it to them to see if they can get it to show up. If so they might charge you a small fee to burn the data onto a CD and then toss the old drive. With new units around for $50 or so for a 200 gig HD, its not worth saving after the data is recovered.

Joe

Joe,
The drive the was the slave in my old computer I left the jumpers alone since I know it was the slave in the old computer. It still did not work. I've also tried jumpering it to CS (cable select) hoping that the system in automatically see itl I am running XP in the new computer. I did try going to the "adding hardware", in the control pannel but it will show the new hard drive as a device. It shows the hard drive that the new computer came with. I've added hard drives before but they were new, not already loaded with information. I've also read something about maybe having to use a boot up disc?
Thanks.
rene