After installing 2nd Hard Drive

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I've just installed a 2nd hard drive and all seems to be well. I have copied
files to the drive and they work. But should I have gone into BIOS and done
something? I'm running WinXP home
 
No I think you're all set since your secondary HD is now being recognized by
your system.

GLuck!
 
Hi,

As long as the drive(s) was jumpered correctly which that seems to be
the case, then no, no BIOS setting need to be changes.
 
Computer Man said:
I've just installed a 2nd hard drive and all seems to be well. I have
copied
files to the drive and they work. But should I have gone into BIOS and
done
something? I'm running WinXP home
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Sometimes the makers disable unused IDE channels. I found that this was the
case on my Dell 4600. XP located the disk without much trouble except that
the disk would only work in PIO mode. Your system may not be like mine.
After I fixed the BIOS all was really well.
Jim
 
thanks for the quick respones.
I don't need to change the BIOS because my 2nd HH was plug & play?
 
Computer Man said:
thanks for the quick respones.
I don't need to change the BIOS because my 2nd HH was plug & play?
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No, because most BIOSes these days come configured to search for a
drive in all four possible places (master and slave on each of the
primary and secondary controllers). And *all* drives nowadays and for
quite a few years in the past will tell the BIOS their configuration
when asked. Kind of works out to "plug-and-play", but doesn't go by
that name.
 
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