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Installing a new HD

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bigboi1881

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Anyone know any places that will install my HD. Im tryin to do it myself and its takin me over an hour and still no luck. So I was thinkin of letting a store do it for me, i Live in the N.New Jersey area, and looking for the cheapest place to do it. Thanks
 
this is my 2nd hard-drive. i already have a 20GB and now trying to install a 40gb. i connected the ribbon and all the wires but its not detecting the new HD. I put the 20gb(old HD) as master and the 40GB (new HD) as slave and i also put the jumpers on correctly
 
Make sure in your bios that you have the additional hard drive set to auto. If you do not enable in bios it will not detect the new hard drive.
 
Make sure the ribbon is connected properly. Remove and reseat it in both the motherboard and the hard drive. Do the same with the power cord. Then read the docs online for both of your hard drives (usually online docs are newer than the docs that ship w/ the part) and make sure you have the jumpers set correctly.
 
with the HD came a ribbon, but i havnt used it. is it mandatory to use the ribbon or is it just if u want to install just 1 hard drive. cuz the ribbon for the old HD, it has 2 connections. One Master and Slave.
 
No, it's not mandatory, but unless you're using the other IDE channel I would highly recommend that you install both devices as master on two different IDE channels as opposed to one master and one slave on the same IDE channel.
 
DOH!! I would maybe check to see if you put the ribbon on correctly. the red stripe on the ribbon should be on pin one of the HDD's data connector, and should also be on pin one of your motherboard. (or expansion card, as it applies)

If its hooked up incorrectly, you might have fried your HDD.
 


<< I would highly recommend that you install both devices as master on two different IDE channels as opposed to one master and one slave on the same IDE channel. >>



Hi Konichiwa. I was just wondering why you would suggest that. I am a student and would value your insight. Thank you
 
Boooooos,

Because only one device on an IDE bus can use the IDE bus at any given time. Thus, if you're trying to transfer from HDD to HDD, it will go much faster if you have them on separate channels.
 
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