Installing 2 Hard Drives

painejake · 01-06-2008, 03:36 AM

Right i was givern a HD and i wanted to install it in my PC with my other one. I was just wondering if anyone could tell me what to do. If anyone can help me out it would be much apriciatedthe HD i have installed is a samsung and the numbers on it are SV0412H/OMD Label ID: LW70108D
S/N 0575J1BW706253 V60L40

And the one i want to install doesnt have much info on it apart from: samsung 147 K4S1616220-TC70 AND 100143433 C 7223MGU7

I know that that isnt much info but im not to sure about anything else. Are all HD compatiable (im guessing not) i heard something about ATA and SATA or something im guessing they are different types?

anyway Thanks
Jay

dai · 01-06-2008, 04:25 AM

set the jumper to slave and connect it to the middle plug on the cable

painejake · 01-06-2008, 02:07 PM

well i just tried bootng from the HD im trying to install and i kept trying to load windows and then rebooting so im wiping it now as i only want it as a slave drive. How do set the jumper to slave?

dai · 01-06-2008, 03:16 PM

look at the diagram on the drive for the jumper settings
you cannot take a hard drive from another computer and just boot into windows from it
you either have to do a clean install or a repair install on it first

painejake · 01-06-2008, 04:14 PM

well the HD doesnt have any info on it and i cant get into BIOS on my pc either for some reason

dai · 01-06-2008, 04:27 PM

i was going on this you posted
[well i just tried bootng from the HD im trying to install and i kept trying to load windows]
check the jumpers
reset the cmos

01-06-2008, 03:36 AM	#1 (permalink)
painejake Registered User Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Birmingham, UK Posts: 107 OS: Windows Vista Ultimate x64 My System	Installing 2 Hard Drives Right i was givern a HD and i wanted to install it in my PC with my other one. I was just wondering if anyone could tell me what to do. If anyone can help me out it would be much apriciatedthe HD i have installed is a samsung and the numbers on it are SV0412H/OMD Label ID: LW70108D S/N 0575J1BW706253 V60L40 And the one i want to install doesnt have much info on it apart from: samsung 147 K4S1616220-TC70 AND 100143433 C 7223MGU7 I know that that isnt much info but im not to sure about anything else. Are all HD compatiable (im guessing not) i heard something about ATA and SATA or something im guessing they are different types? anyway Thanks Jay

01-06-2008, 04:25 AM	#2 (permalink)
dai Manager, Hardware Forums Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: west australia Posts: 53,622 OS: vista 32x 64x ultimate retail	Re: Installing 2 Hard Drives set the jumper to slave and connect it to the middle plug on the cable __________________

01-06-2008, 02:07 PM	#3 (permalink)
painejake Registered User Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Birmingham, UK Posts: 107 OS: Windows Vista Ultimate x64 My System	Re: Installing 2 Hard Drives well i just tried bootng from the HD im trying to install and i kept trying to load windows and then rebooting so im wiping it now as i only want it as a slave drive. How do set the jumper to slave?

01-06-2008, 03:16 PM	#4 (permalink)
dai Manager, Hardware Forums Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: west australia Posts: 53,622 OS: vista 32x 64x ultimate retail	Re: Installing 2 Hard Drives look at the diagram on the drive for the jumper settings you cannot take a hard drive from another computer and just boot into windows from it you either have to do a clean install or a repair install on it first __________________

01-06-2008, 04:14 PM	#5 (permalink)
painejake Registered User Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Birmingham, UK Posts: 107 OS: Windows Vista Ultimate x64 My System	Re: Installing 2 Hard Drives well the HD doesnt have any info on it and i cant get into BIOS on my pc either for some reason

01-06-2008, 04:27 PM	#6 (permalink)
dai Manager, Hardware Forums Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: west australia Posts: 53,622 OS: vista 32x 64x ultimate retail	Re: Installing 2 Hard Drives i was going on this you posted [well i just tried bootng from the HD im trying to install and i kept trying to load windows] check the jumpers reset the cmos __________________