Author Topic: Slave Drive Help (Read 1100 times)

rekees · « **on:** July 28, 2007, 07:44:31 AM »

OK

i got a new hard drive 80 gb today... ive been trying to install it and all but it kept coming up with some gay windows xp needs to be instaleld on it or something... i installed it on the drive and it works... but i just want one OS not two... and iwant that drive to be another hard drive for my master hard drive.. not antoher OS..

so everytime i start up my computer, i get 2 choices of os' i wanna pick... i pick the master one and the drive works... but i want to remove the OS on the slave hard drive... can someone help me please on how to do this? ill pay 1 k forum money...

Neo Anderson · « **Reply #1 on:** July 28, 2007, 03:46:11 PM »

What kind of HD? IDE, ATA, SATA? You might need to set this new drive as master in the bios if auto detect in the bios is not enabled. Also, are the jumpers for the new HD set right? These same things apply for the slave drive, your old one. Check the jumpers and also check the settings in the bios. Gettin 2 options for OS's means one of the drives is set wrong probably. It sounds like the bios is reading 2 master HD's, hence you get an option on which OS you want to boot from.

How about connectors? You using a 40 pin or 80 pin? Also are both HD's on one cable or on seperate cables?

Oh an important note, if you change a setting in the bios and you screw it up, guess what? PC may not boot anymore so be careful.

brandon6199 · « **Reply #2 on:** July 28, 2007, 04:27:01 PM »

damn Neo, you know alot about this stuff

Neo Anderson · « **Reply #3 on:** July 28, 2007, 05:41:57 PM »

Quote from: brandon6199

damn Neo, you know alot about this stuff

I learned cause I just did what rekees is tryin to do. Put a new HD in and added my old one as a slave.

rekees · « **Reply #4 on:** July 28, 2007, 06:11:17 PM »

its an ide drive...

not sure bout pins cause cause no instructions or anything...

its connected to 1 and the master is set to C drive and the slave on the cable is set to F drive (new one)

the jumpers are set correctly to slave... in bios, it has Hard Drive 0, 1, 2,3 ,4... Hard drive 0 is C and hard drive 1 is the one i want slave....

Neo Anderson · « **Reply #5 on:** July 28, 2007, 06:19:20 PM »

Ok, the master shows as C: and the slave as F:, are they both hooked up on the one cable or are you using a cable for each drive to hook them to your mobo?

If you go to the control panel and system then advanced, startup and recovery, then click the settings . That will show you what OS's will boot when you start up. I've never tried this but you could just remove the OS for drive F: as a boot option. It should then just boot to your master drive. I'll leave it up to you cause I'm not sure if this would cause you any problems or not.

rekees · « **Reply #6 on:** July 28, 2007, 06:49:01 PM »

their hooked up to 1 cable....

rekees · « **Reply #7 on:** July 28, 2007, 07:32:10 PM »

oh wait its a Parallel-ATA hard drive...

Interface: ATA 133