Re: Adding a second Hard Drive by John
John
Wed Jan 14 09:00:27 CST 2004
Oh, for the BIOS key... check your owners manual, it should be in there.
Common keys are Del or F2 or Esc. Sometimes it's a combination of
keys. If you post the make and model number of your pc someone may know
the key offhand. You can also do a search on the net. Usually when you
boot the pc it says something like "... to enter setup press..."
John
John John wrote:
> You may have to go in the BIOS and turn it on, it should be referred to
> as HDD1, HDD0 will be the primary drive. If it shows otherwise it's
> because you slaved it upside down, happens more often than you might
> think, you'll know if Windows doesn't want to boot it's because the
> slave has been made HDD0. You can simply check that by turning off HDD0
> in the BIOS. If the pc boots off of HDD1 then the drives are upside
> down. The BIOS should see the drive as "automatic" or set it to AUTO.
>
> John
>
> M. wrote:
>
>> Thanks John, that's what I was hoping, but I had heard differently.
>> Both drives are a FAT32 IDE drive. Do I have to manually enter the
>> BIOS and turn it on, or will ME automatically do it? Which key do I
>> hit to enter the BIOS, there's no prompt for anything?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> M.
>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> You don't need to partition and format anything. Just
>>
>>
>> slave the drive
>>
>>> and you should see it with Me providing that it is turned
>>
>>
>> on in the BIOS
>>
>>> and that the file format is compatible.
>>>
>>> John
>>>
>>> M. wrote:
>>>
>>>> I want to add a second (slave) hard drive to my
>>
>>
>> computer
>>
>>>> without losing the data that is already on that drive.
>>
>>
>> Is
>>
>>>> there a way to do this without having to backup all my data first
>>>> and then partition and format the drive?
>>>>
>>>> Thank you
>>>>
>>>> M.
>>>>
>>>
>>> .
>>>
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