Adding a HD

[Mickey Mouse]

I have a WD 200GIG Hardrive in my old machine. Mobo died.
The hardrive was formatted to C: drive (no partitions)
I want to add this drive to my new system

My new system uses a K8 Triton Series Mobo. (Gigabyte Ga-k8nsc-939.)
And dual Core AMD,Athlon(k7) processor. Sysyem is running Windows Home + SP2
With a 400gig Wd HD formatted to C and D drives (200gig each).
I want to add the hardrive from my other machine who's mobo has died. to my
new system as a slave (E: drive) Will windows or bios automatically
recognise this drive or do I need to remove or set the jumper to slave.
I've been told all I need to do is remove any jumper and put it into the new
machine and it will be recognised and all I may need to do is format it. Is
this right?

Mickey.

 

[Michael Stevens]

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I have a WD 200GIG Hardrive in my old machine. Mobo died.
The hardrive was formatted to C: drive (no partitions)
I want to add this drive to my new system

My new system uses a K8 Triton Series Mobo. (Gigabyte Ga-k8nsc-939.)
And dual Core AMD,Athlon(k7) processor. Sysyem is running Windows
Home + SP2 With a 400gig Wd HD formatted to C and D drives (200gig
each). I want to add the hardrive from my other machine who's mobo has
died.
to my new system as a slave (E: drive) Will windows or bios
automatically recognise this drive or do I need to remove or set the
jumper to slave. I've been told all I need to do is remove any jumper
and put it into the new machine and it will be recognised and all I
may need to do is format it. Is this right?

Mickey.

Check the Western Digital web site. The jumper settings are usually on the
hard drive label.
The bios should detect the hard drive, and you can format it using disk
management.
Format XP
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/format_XP.htm
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[Phil Jones]

I'd set it to slave, and add it in (assuming you are using the same IDE
cable). If you don't know what the jumper pattern is, WD would have this
info on their web site.

Once this is done, BIOS and W will recognise the drive.

Cheers, Phil

 

[Mickey Mouse]

Phil,
There were no jumpers on the drive so using a seperate ide cable I plugged
it into IDE2 on the mobo. The bios sees it ok but as a master. I formatted
it and rebooted ok. Disk manager shows the drive at 127.99gig with 50.32
unallocated. Being inexperienced I ask, is connecting a second drive using
a seperate cable into a free IDE socket (ide2) as I have adding a second
MASTER or should it be a SLAVE?

Mickey

 

[Michael Stevens]

Phil,
There were no jumpers on the drive so using a seperate ide cable I
plugged it into IDE2 on the mobo. The bios sees it ok but as a
master. I formatted it and rebooted ok. Disk manager shows the
drive at 127.99gig with 50.32 unallocated. Being inexperienced I
ask, is connecting a second drive using a seperate cable into a free
IDE socket (ide2) as I have adding a second MASTER or should it be a
SLAVE?
Mickey

Then the jumpers were missing, you need to jumper the drive to make it a
slave. Since you didn't list the exact model Western Digital hard drive,
none of us can give you exact information. If you want more help, post back
with your hard drive data.
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[Dick Cardy]

Phil,
There were no jumpers on the drive so using a seperate ide cable I plugged
it into IDE2 on the mobo. The bios sees it ok but as a master. I formatted
it and rebooted ok. Disk manager shows the drive at 127.99gig with 50.32
unallocated. Being inexperienced I ask, is connecting a second drive using
a seperate cable into a free IDE socket (ide2) as I have adding a second
MASTER or should it be a SLAVE?

Mickey

WD jumpers are normally between the power socket and the hard drive cable
socket