help with master and slaves

Heres the thing i have 160 gig IDE hard drive and a 250 gig SATA hard drive

i want to make my SATA be my master and my IDE be my Slave

does any one how to do this???



then i have another problem too..
See i had my 160 gig on my old pc and crashed so it was only able to partition 131 gigs so after i take all my info off my that partition i want to try to get my 16o gig...

do i just have to format it and make it and try to make it go to 160 or wha do i have to do

 

On most drives you just have to set the jumpers correctly, it varies with ifferent brands so go to the manuafacturers website and look it up.

 

mmmmm the IDE had jumpers and i set them as slave but the SATA does not have jumpers for them do i need jumpers for them??/

 

ok, i am not familiar with SATA drives. someone else cane probably help you.

 

I have answers you on software and don't start multiple thread please.....

 

sorry didnt know where 2 put it
to answer ur queston
the SATA does not tell me which is the master or slave it just tells me
SSC PN2 OPT1 OPT2 thats what instead of master and slave

 

Master and Slave jumpers have zero effect on performance. There really is no reason to change them if they are working.

 

then how would i make my sata become my master so i could install xp on it

i tryed unpulgin my IDE and installin xp on the sata but its not reading it

 

You'll need your SATA drivers on a floppy disk so that you can load them during Windows install. Then your SATA drive will show up as a drive that you can install on. Once you have them on a floppy disk, you press F6 when you first get into the install and it says at the bottom, "Press F6 to install 3rd party RAID or SCSI drivers" or something like that. Then you point it to your floppy and everything should be good to go.

 

o damn thats pretty smart yeah i will try that tomorrow

and then after the installation i should just re hook up my IDE slave and get my info off of it right?

 

now where do i get these drivers?

 

It depends on what you are plugging your drive into...

If it plugs directly into your motherboard, the motherboard maker's website will have the drivers. If it plugs into a seperate card, you'll need to go to that card's maker's website to find them.