Adding Another Slave hard Drive

[Guest]

I have only one hard drive on the computer at the present time running Win XP
Home. I have another hard drive that has Windows 2000 Pro on it. Can I add
the Win 2000 Pro hard drive to my computer as a slave drive ? Without
damaging the "Activation" I did for my boot drive ?? If I just add the drive
and set the pins for a "slave" drive, will that work ?
Thanks for any help
Redwagon.......

 

[Rich Barry]

If the correct settings ( Master , Slave ) are used it should work, but
you won't be able to boot into Win2k unless you
change the hard drive order in the Bios. From WinXP you may have to rt
click on MyComputer>select Manage>Disk
Management>rt click on 2k drive and assign it a drive letter.

 

[Ron Martell]

I have only one hard drive on the computer at the present time running Win XP
Home. I have another hard drive that has Windows 2000 Pro on it. Can I add
the Win 2000 Pro hard drive to my computer as a slave drive ? Without
damaging the "Activation" I did for my boot drive ?? If I just add the drive
and set the pins for a "slave" drive, will that work ?
Thanks for any help
Redwagon.......

You can add a second hard drive as a slave on the Primary IDE
connector provided:

1. There is no other device (e.g. CDROM/CDRW/DVD/Zip/Tape) presently
connected as the slave device on the Primary IDE connector.
2. You configure the jumpers on the second hard drive as "slave".
3. You configure the jumpers on the existing hard drive as "master
drive with slave present". On some makes of hard drive this is a
different jumper than is used for "stand alone master drive".

This should make the drive usable by Windows XP and the contents
should be fully accessible from Windows XP.

However you will not be able to run the Windows 2000 on the second
hard drive.

Good luck


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