adding a hard drive

[tokar]

putting a new 2nd hdd into a computer is a matter of placing it in the slot and screwing in a couple of screws so it doesn't move.  my problem is to get the cable connected and set up.  i may have a ribbon cable to make the connection.  i have two but if i remember what i think i was told, there is not a twist in two / three of the wires.

can you help?  i am located near halifax and duthie in north burnaby.  please send me a pvt message to contact me.  at the moment i do not have transport

[Sasha]

putting a new 2nd hdd into a computer is a matter of placing it in the slot and screwing in a couple of screws so it doesn't move.  my problem is to get the cable connected and set up.  i may have a ribbon cable to make the connection.  i have two but if i remember what i think i was told, there is not a twist in two / three of the wires.

can you help?  i am located near halifax and duthie in north burnaby.  please send me a pvt message to contact me.  at the moment i do not have transport

I recall now, there is a jumper you are supposed to move to set it as a slave drive (not booted from, but still accessible from your computer.) This may be the official way of doing it, over your twisting of wires.

A small diagram (to give you an idea)
http://www.samsung.com/us/system/support/content/2008/09/29/h1123/HDD%20Jumper%20Block%20Settings.jpg

Your drive should show a diagram actually on a sticker or label, on which one to put the jumper over to set as slave mode.

Tigerface.

[tokar]

i have a hdd that has the jumper set to slave.  if that is the only thing needed to do i can do it but i want some more confirmation.

[Sasha]

i have a hdd that has the jumper set to slave.  if that is the only thing needed to do i can do it but i want some more confirmation.

It should work fine :3 , and appears as D:/ or E:/ drive on your computer or something similar automatically. I suppose there is no harm in trying, worst that can happen is you'll get a boot error, but it can be fixed just by taking it out.

[Selkit]

You might otherwise have to set drive order in BIOS depending on the age of your system and what other drive configuration you have (Opticals, etc). However, simply jumpering it to slave or cable-select then installing it, should be adequate in most cases. By ribbon cable, I presume you mean a PATA drive?

[Carl Foxmarten]

Depending on how recent your drives and cable are, it's actually better to set them to Cable Select, so that the drive's position on the cable determines which drive it is.
(well, this is best if the plugs on your ribbon cables are different colours)

Granted, I don't know for certain, as I primarily used the older IDE drives and cables, then upgraded all the way to SATA, so I kind of missed that point in the evolution of the standard.