hOW TO INSTALL A SLAVE DRIVE

Well you need an IDE cable with 3 connectors - one for the motherboard/IDE controller and the other for 2 drives.

You should get the documentation for both drives -but much of it is available off the internet. You need to make sure the jumpers are correct for both drives - sometimes drives that work fine alone don't work as masters because one of the jumpers is wrong.

I have had drives in the past which would not be read properly by the BIOS or would not work as slaves to other brands of drive. I think this problem has mostly gone away due to better BIOS/drive controllers.

Once you have the jumpers and cabling correct you should be able to see the second drive in your BIOS. Most modern BIOS will be able to see the drive type and size automatically.

Once the BIOS sees the drive, its just a matter of using Fdisk and format.

James

First check the jumper settings on back of the drive to set as slave
Open the computer case,there should be two 40 pin ribbon cables
If the first cable has a hard drive and cd-rom connected to it use the secondary ribbon cable,install the drive incomputer and follow the orientation of the first cable,make sure the color side is connected to pin 1,follow the power plug connection also.

change the jumper setting in the hard disk where you connect the power connector for the harddisk don't put any jumper it will take as slave

change the jumper setting in the hard disk where you connect the power connector for the harddisk don't put any jumper it will take as slave.connect the the cable correctly ie.the pin1 (with a color)on harddisk a small mark if thre are no mark then the color side of data cable and power connector should face each other

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