Install a new hard drive.

I have two computers with a asus p28-8 motherboard . I want to install a Western Digital WDAC2850-00F HARD DRIVEconfused

 

You'll have to change the jumper in the back of the current drive to 'Master' and the new one to 'Slave'. The end connector on the ribbon cable will now have to be hooked up to the old drive and the middle one to the new drive. Don't close up the case before you see that the machine boots properly and drives are responding normally. With a machine that old the power supply may not be upto the task and not even boot. Good luck.

 

Here's a decent video of how to install one or a second hard drive. There's plenty of other videos too.

 

Thank you.
Do I need to use a new cable for the floppy disc drive that is connected ahead of the HD now? Would I connect this to the secondary eide soket on the motherboard?

 

A floppy drive has a different type of cable from an IDE drive thus it should not factor into the equation.

 

The floppy disk uses a 34 pin connector and the HDD uses a 40 pin ribbon cable so the new drive would connect to the slightly larger connector below the floppy connector on the motherboard. A new 40-pin ribbon cable is inexpensive maybe 3 bucks.

(I'm too slow on a Sat. night):-D Cheers Collin

 

the CD Rom drive is currently first then the HD. Should I put the original HD first, the new hard drive second, and then run a new cable for the CD Rom? Thanks

 

Huh, what happened to the floppy? Ya, sounds like a good plan, CD on its own and the CD and HDDs use the same format cable.

 

My second hard drive is detected in the bios but does not show up in windows???? What Now?It is possible that the second hard drive is fat 32 files. Will it need to be formatted to NTFS ?
In regard to the floppy: Sorry about that-I once had a college professor who said after mispeaking "It's not what I say, It's what I mean"

 

Highlited part by me, yes you have to go to disk management and format it to NTFS, a factory new drive has no format.

Not hilited part.:-D Happens to everyone.

 

Thanks Auggie but this is a used hard drive which was not formatted. I went to disc management and it does not appear there either. Any other ideas? Thanks for the trouble

 

Your absolutely correct. I reminded myself of the problem when trying to get the bios to recognize it. It is formatted in fat 32 and has win98 for the operating system. My present computer has NTFS Win XP. The reason I was trying to use it is it has AutoCAD light on it. I no longer have nor can afford to replace the disk for the AutoCAD. I have an old computer I can bring the HD up on. It sure woul;d be nice to be able to use it on my newer computer. I wonder how difficult it would be to partition a portion of my disc to fat thirty 32 and move the contents from the smaller disc onto it?

 

It should be fairly easy to use the disk manager in windows XP to shrink the NTFS partition, and then use Acronis or a similar product to clone the old hard drive to the new partition. Please note that just copying the files across will not work as the Win98 will not be able to boot if you just copy the files.