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Old 09-19-2002, 08:26 AM   #4
The Hunter of Jahanna
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Join Date: September 25, 2001
Location: NY , NY
Age: 64
Posts: 960
I have good news and bad news. THe good news is that it isnt hard at all to install 2 hard drives. The bad news is that it is going to be a pain in the arse to fix your friends flubbed work. Take out both drives look how the jumpers and ribon cable are set up on the drives. The jumper on your old drive should be set in the "master position" and it should be on the end of the ribbon cable.On my western digital drive ,master position looks like this ::[:]:: THis wil tell the bios to boot it up first. Your second drive should be in the middle of the ribon cable and the jumper on the back should be set so the "slave position."Slave position looks like this :::[:]: on my hard drive.If you set it up like this and you comp still boots the wrong OS you are going to have to format that drive. TO insure that no mistakes happen take out the Hard drive you dont want formatted, set the jumpers to master on the drive you are formatting and erase away!! When you are done formatting, reset the jumpers to "Slave" put in the other drive and fire up your machine. Windows should boot from the "Master"drive and should read the formatted drive as just empty space. I hope this helps you out.
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