Removing a second hard drive?

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choitoy57

Last October, I got a new Seagate hard drive for my computer for a
upgrade.

Then, starting around late December/early January, my computer woul
have these problems. There was a mysterious beeping/buzzing sound tha
came about once a second from my computer. The computer would not ru
at all, but then I was able to tweak enough stuff while running in saf
mode that I got my computer to work.

But now, when I get to the BIOS load screen (or whatever it is, I'm no
too savvy about the technical stuff), the one that comes before m
Windows XP home load screen, it freezes on that screen untill I puc
"F2". Sometimes it recognizes my second hard drive, sometimes i
doesn't.

My computer will aslo freeze and lock up with the busy light on, whe
I've been on the computer for about an hour.

I think I've pinpointed some of the problems to the second hard drive.
I used the Seagate disk check program, and it found a couple o
corrupted sectors. This is somewhat confirmed as when I try to acces
a couple of the files on the second hard drive, it will freeze.

What I want to do is, I want to clear off the hard drive, remove it
and send it to Seagate for warranty replacement.

What I want to know is, before I remove the hard drive, should I d
anyhing special in Windows or to the BIOS settings? Or is it OK, t
just remove the second hard drive without changing anything, an
letting my computer run without it until I get my replacement har
drive
 
You dont need to do anything special to remove a slave HD.The system will
read the fact that its gone.
Be sure you remove all info from the drive before you remove it.There are
programs that will overwrite with 0 all of the info on the drive.
peterk
 
Obviously it is good to 'MOVE' all files onto another drive or 'COPY' to a CD.

Then where possible change the file structure from NTFS to FAT32 or Vice
Versa and follow this with format. This will go some way to making sure that
your data is not accessible to another pewrsonb who might get hold of the
drive.

remove it from the PC and you may need to do an IDE Auto detection in BIOS
just to reset it to the changed configuration.

Xp doesn't require that anything 'special' is done by the user.
 
If you remove a slave drive from the computer you will have to check the
jumpers on the remaining drive to be certain that it can operate as a single
drive. With W.D. drives, master does NOT equate to single. The jumpers must
be changed.

If both the drives are jumpered as cable select, just remove the 2nd drive.
No changes will be necessary.

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Regards,

Richard Urban

aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard :-)

If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!
 
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