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by katbelue

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I have just installed a new 2nd hard-drive of Maxtor 7200/40gig hard-drive as a 2nd hardrive. I have never done this before. I need to do a BIOS set-up. How do I do it? Thanks. Cecil Congleton

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by dmiles

Boot your computer and when the startup screen comes up look at the bottom-left to see what key to press to enter CMOS setup (ex.Delete)
When the CMOS panel opens,go down to Drive configuration and you will need to highlight the slave drive use thepageup or page down to select auto and save and exit
Make sure you have the jumper on the drive designated with proper setting master or slave,look at diagram on drive

by jaboy78

Make sure ur second harddrive change it to primary slave..using jumper on the harddisk..if this two harddisk is sharing the IDE cables.

when booting..press del or esc on the Keyboard.

In the bios, there is a menu "Auto Detect IDE" or "Auto detect harddrive".

enter and let the ide auto detect..

by andymah

You may want to check your bios settings (follow soulrider's directions>>> probably starting with pressing the delete key) before you make any additions, such as a hard drive. Then you will have a base to build upon. Then after installation go back and adjust for master and slave. Simple as pie.

by vze3k67k

FIRST OF ALL YOU NEED TO MAKE YOUR ORINIAL HARD DRIVE YOUR SECOND DRIVE, WHAT I MEEN BY THAT IS,YOU NEED TO MAKE YOUR NEW HARD DRIVE YOUR PRIMARY OR C: DRIVE,AND IF THE NEW HARD DRIVE DIDN'T COME WITH A INSTALLER PROGRAM,YOU NEED TO GO TO MAXTOR,S WEBSITE AND DOWNLOAD A BIOS UPGRADE FOR THAT HARDDRIVE.

by vze3k67k

YOU NEED TO DOWNLOAD A BOIS UPGRADE BEFORE YOU TRY TO INSTALL THE NEW HARDDRIVE,AND PUT IT ON A FLOPPY. THEN INSTALL THE NEW HARDDRIVE AS YOUR PRIMARY C: DRIVE ON IDE 0,BOOT YOUR COMPUTER PRESS THE DEL KEY WHILE BOOTING, GO TO CMOS SETUP ,GO TO AUTODETECT NAD LET IT DETECT THE DRIVE. AFTER IT DETECTS THE DRIVE SAVE AND EXIT. PUT THE BOIS UPGRADE FLOPPY IN AND LET IF BOOT TO THE FLOPPY, THEN FOLLOW THE FLOPPY'S INSTRUCTIONS

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