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help! newbie adding a hard drive

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777joee

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I'm trying to add a slave hard drive to my computer. Running Win98 version 1 with the 2nd edition updates.

System specs:
Intel SE440BX mb w/ Pentium II 350
Master drive Quantum Fireball 5.1
New slave drive Seagate 40 GIG

How do I make it work?
 
All you need to do is make sure the jumper settings are set to slave (most hard drives have a sticker on the top that illustrates how to do this). Then plug it into that extra connection on your IDE cable. Most IDE (Hard Drive/CDROM) cables have three different connection points on them. Leave the IDE cable plugged into the motherboard and plug your original hard drive into the top connector (should already be there) and plug your new (slave) hard drive into the middle connector. Don't forget to hook up the power from the power supply. Start up your computer and your BIOS should detect the new drive. You may need to format the drive before you actually begin using it. I recommend formatting it right after install anyway.

Hope this helps
 
Do you have the jumpers on the new drive set on slave? Do you have the drive connected to the same cable? Is the BIOS detecting the drive?
 
Yes, yes, and yes. It's listed under device manager in the system properties, but not anywhere else. Like not in my computer, it's not listed as a drive at all. Ii have the setup directions but they're really not helping at all, totally confused.
 
Set it to slave - plug it in 🙂

Edit - Whopps, I thought you were asking how to install it. Sorry. 🙂
 
What I would do (just another idea if you haven't considered it):

1) Set new drive as slave, format as one partition and copy entire 5.1g to 40g using the Seagate utility disk (assuming you have a boot disk like Maxtor and WD provide).

2) Unplug the old drive and use the new 40g one as your primary (change jumpers).

3) After a few weeks to make sure the new drive is working fine, erase your old 5.1g drive and use it as the slave.
 
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