2 HARD DRIVES....1 old 1 new...new installed...how should old be?

[Guest]

I just installed a new hard drive to save re-installing windows on my old
hard drive and losing everything. i was wondering if there is any danger in
hooking up my old hard drive......and how i should go about doing it?

my new hard drive is set to CS. I believe my old one is as well. Can i
simply hook up the middle portion of my IDE cable to my old hard drive and
have both drives running on CS mode?

or do i have to switch my new hard drive (on top) to master, and my old hard
drive (on bottom) to slave? one end of the IDE cable is connected to the
mother board, while the other end is connected to the new hard drive. i plan
to just plug the middle portion of the IDE cable into the old hard drive.

if i do master or slave.........or even cable select.......does it risk
doing any damage to my computer settings? or can i just simply hook up the
middle portion and be on my way?

fyi.......my new hard drive is 250 gb, and my old drive is 200 gb.

thanks,
mike

 

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Hi,

You can hook it up as you propose (using CS or Master/Slave, either should
work), it should not cause any damage to the existing system.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

 

[Plato]

You can hook it up as you propose (using CS or Master/Slave, either should
work), it should not cause any damage to the existing system.

Perhaps it's my imagination, but a few times, ok it was late at night,
but a few times when setting up these new drives on 80 conductor cables
they actually preferred cable select. On any new system I build it's
always cable select these days anyway.

 

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Connected properly, many drives love being on CS, though my preference is to
always use the MS/SL arrangement. Using the 80 wire cable is important as
well, using a 40 wire on newer drives quickly generates error messages.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

 

[Larry(LJL269)]

my new hard drive is set to CS. I believe my old one is as well. Can i
simply hook up the middle portion of my IDE cable to my old hard drive and
have both drives running on CS mode?

U want each HD to be master on its OWN IDE( u should have
2). Any CD's,.. would be slaves. I prefer to set M/S jumper
mmyself- find settinds at WD,Maxtor,... sites.
Imaging partition goes at 175MB/min IDE 2 IDE which is
'smoking'.

Just slow system down if u do it wrong.

HTH-Larry


Any advise given is my attempt to show appreciation for all
the excellent help I've received here but I'm no MVP so it
may only apply NUGS (Normally, Usually, Generally, Sometimes

 

[Plato]

Connected properly, many drives love being on CS, though my preference is to
always use the MS/SL arrangement. Using the 80 wire cable is important as
well, using a 40 wire on newer drives quickly generates error messages.

Good I wasn't dreaming then.

 

[Butch]

....That is something that the manufacturers will not tell you....Use the
40socket-80 conductor
ribbon cable...I've bought 2 differnent cables and neither one worked. When
I was installing a second
hard drive.....Thanks to Rick..Alex..Ron...Thomas........They showed me the
ERROR Of my ways...
..................................Butch