Hard Drives

[Rossi]

I just ordered this for my computer but I'm not 100% sure how to put it in?
I think I have the available cables in  the back of the computer but someone said that I have to set it to the slave drive or something by changing the plugs on the back of the connection or something? If anyone knows about this can they elaborate please

[blinkpip]

Whits is away isn't he. He knows best.

[STFCDude]

If you are only going to have the one hard drive in your pc, you will need to set it to master.  If you have two, one will need to be master and one will need to be slave.  

You can adjust the master/slave by looking at the back of the hd, you'll find a row like this :::: with a plastic cap probably over one of the :'s.  Consult the manual that came with your hd (sometimes it will show you on the hd itself) to find out where the plastic cap needs to be positioned in order to set that hd as master or slave

[Simon Pieman]

kinky games for computer users  

[oxford_fan]

Whits is away isn't he. He knows best.

when was the last time he was on here?

[Ben Wah Balls]

Two weeks ago, he's on holiday. Not sure how long for.

[magicroundabout]

I just ordered this for my computer but I'm not 100% sure how to put it in?
I think I have the available cables in  the back of the computer but someone said that I have to set it to the slave drive or something by changing the plugs on the back of the connection or something? If anyone knows about this can they elaborate please

are you having it as a second internal harddrive???
or is it replacing your old one???

do you have space inside to put your new hardrive in there doesn't seem room in the picture you showed us

[DMR]

I thought this thread was about a particuarly good cricket stroke

[magicroundabout]

also what you should do is have an external hardrive.
ask OF aswell as they are the dogs and are easy to use.

[Iffy's Onion Bhaji]

i did all this at college  the other month the funny thing is i dont have a clue since ive forgotten it

[magicroundabout]

if you do get a case for it and have it as an external drive here is the link you need to format it

http://thetownend.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1417

also buy a case from these guys
i have this one
http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/ProductInfo.asp?WebProductID=112589

[Super_Taff]

It is dead easy to whack a hard drive in, open up pc, find the loose socket (providing u havent filled it up with cd, dvd etc)

Whack that in back, set to primary if it your only hdd or slave if it a back up/ secondary one

Then whack the case back on

whack the pc on

whack porn on hard drive

whack off

[Man of Steel]

Whits might be away but i can help with this.

The hardrive you have in the pic is an internal one. its very straight forward.

flip open case. look for lead going into current hardrive. If it's a replacement just put the new one where the old one is. then you will have to reinstall windows. pop cd in and follow on screen instructions.

If its a second harddrive,  then first pull out your current hardrive and look at the jumper pins on the back where you plug the power and ide cable into. make sure the jumper is set across the correct pins telling the pc the harddrive is master, this is nearly always shown in a diagram on the back of the drive. Sometimes displayed in the disgram as MA,SL, CS, or somthing similar to that. MA being master, SL being slave and CS being cable select.

Once set to master, set pin jumper on new drive as slave, then connect drives to motherboard using the ide cable. Normally colour coded in the following with blue, grey and black plugs on the cable. Blue will plug into the motherboard, grey into your new drive or drive set to slave, and black into your old drive or drive set to master.

Once its all connected as described, ensure you have power going to both drives and turn on.

I will assume you are running XP, so once PC is on, you will notice it will not be displayed in "my computer". This is because the harddrive needs formatting to become active. Right click "my computer", then click on "manage", click "disk management".

In the right hand pain all your drives and drive letters will be listed. You will also see your new drive with no assigned letter or partitions. Right click it and choose options to format the drive and make it active. I can not remember the exact options here but it is very straight forward. You can also highlight the drive in the list and click "action" in the title bar and follow options through there.

[magicroundabout]

looking at his picture though it doesn't look like there is room to add a second internal HDD. thats why i suggested getting an external case for it.

my dell only has space for 1 HDD so i have to buy an external case for it.

[Rossi]

I intend to have it as a 2nd internal hard drive. I'm sure it will fit, because at the end of the day it doesn't matter if it's just dangling around by the wires does it?