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Adding a second harddrive

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faenix

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I have a 40GB IDE drive lying around in a Dell I don't use and I am having lots of problems with my computer. I would love to reformat it but I have lots of MP3's and Pictures that need to be backed up. Can I just plug in my hard drive via IDE and use it as a storage device? How would I format that hard drive?

Any help would be appreciated.
 
You can add the 40GB drive to your machine by hooking it up as an additional IDE drive. Be careful though, you can only have one "master" drive on each IDE channel, so if you already have an IDE drive on the cable, make sure you set one to master, one to slave.

Once you have that hooked up and you boot into winxp, it will detect new hardware and allow access to the new hard drive. To format it, you can go to "my computer" and just right click on the drive.
 
If my primary drive is on SATA and my second IDE drive is on Master, can I still use the second drive as a backup storage device?
 
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