Second Hard drive

Hey guys, I am going to be buying a second hard dive for my computer, since the original 40G HD is getting full. What do I have to do to install this second HD and still keep the first? I don't know much about computers, so use small words, hehe I appreciate the help

 

Hi Stephen.. Just put new HD alongside the old using connector on Ribbon (in the middle, slave) Then put your Jumper settings to SLAVE'' on the new one and thats it, just boot up and away ye go.. Your computer should now recognise 2 Hard Drives dont do as I always do forget to.. connect a power lead to the new HD

 

Hehe, great!! Thanks a lot

 

well now that you know how to install it

heres the HDD i would get/have

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=423018&Sku=THD-2000JB P

its a 200 gb 7200 rpm for only 129$

50cal

 

I counter with this suggestion:

http://3btech.net/whlamadate204.html

 

get what you pay for lol

 

I've never had any problems with component's bought at a lower cost, simply because I didn't pay for a brand name. If you want to pay more, that's fine, I don't see the point. If it breaks, it's going to break, no matter the price paid.

 

Why would you pay $99 for an unknown quantity when you can get the Western Digital for $89?

 

Ok guys, got my second drive, hooked it up as the slave and followed the jumper settings for slave. Now my computer will not boot past the BIOS screen with this HD connected. I don't know if it's a problem that I have HD's from 2 different companies(Maxtor and Western Digital). Any help would be great Thanks

 

What is it actually saying on the screen ???

 

i have the same setup shouldnt be a Maxtor and Western Digital thingy

just post what the bios says

 

Is the first drive set to master? Or possibly master with slave present. I got a computer that had a single drive set to... Single drive. Wouldn't work with my second one until I changed that.

 

Think that may be the problem Triaxx..now I just got to find the jumper settings for my Maxtor

 

The maxtor I'm looking at has the jumpers identified on the bottom of the drive with the numbers 42 at one end of the jumpers and 50 at the other. On the top of the drive it clearly labels the settings for jumper 50 as follows: Master/Single = On; Slave = Off.
Hope this helps.

 

Ok, everytime I make progress, something else goes wrong Now I am able to boot my computer and start Windows. Everything works fine until I try to install the new HD. When it tries to partition my computer locks up solid. Any ideas? I'm dumb, lol

 

Any ideas guys? When I go into the disk manager, my computer see the new HD, but it's not initialized. When I try to initialize, my computer locks up solid. Could this be a problem with my new HD? The new HD also starts spinning and stops quickly over and over. I'm slow with computers, but my old HD doesn't do that. Thought it could be a problem. Thanks guys

 

I had something similar trying to install my Seagate. *beats head on keyboard* I had to use their program to partition and format it. Does Western Digital have something like that?

 

It has a disk that came with it to partition, but that also freezes up my computer

 

Hmmm... What's running on windows? Might it be a firewall problem? I know I've had them mess with some program installations. If there's too much stuff running in windows, that might be freezing it.

 

I had a bad HDD. Exchanged it and the new one runs perfect Thanks for all the help guys

 

Scratch that previous post. There is something really wrong here Everything looked ok, I downloaded a game to my new HDD which was my E drive. Then when I went to play the game, there was no E drive on my computer. It doesn't show up anywhere anymore. Anybody know what might be going on here? I can't even uninstall or reinstall the game on my 1st HDD because the computer still sees it on an E drive that doesn't seem to exist now. AHHHHHHHH!!! hehe. Thanks to anyone who can help me sort this out. All I wanted was some more storage space, lol

 

heres the tool to make the HDD work its from Western Digital

http://support.wdc.com/download/dlg/dlgsetup11_win.zip

 

My HDD came with that program. I try to plug the hard drive back in and it works for a short time, then disappears again. I left it plugged in overnight, and just got up and a write error was on the screen. It said something like there was a Write error for the E:/ drive, there may be a problem with hardware or the network connection. Is there any way that this could again be a bad HDD? I find it hard to believe that I could get 2 bad HDD's in a row

 

Try swapping cable's with your CD-ROM. That might be what's gone bad. I can't think of any thing else.

 

Yea, I have a few of these cables that I have swapped out now. Still having same problem. I looked at the Western Digital support site, and if I follow their steps of t-shooting the clicking noise, I again have a defective HDD. This is really hard to believe, 2 bad HDD's in a row?? Something else is gotta be going on

 

Power Supply and Motherboard functioning correctly?

 

Here's a dumb question...has the new drive been formatted?

 

Hey guys, I ended up with another bad HDD. I took it back and got a refund, then went and got another Maxtor Everything looks good now and the HDD hasn't disappeared yet, lol. I want to thank all you guys for your help