Martint Posted August 20, 2005 Report Share Posted August 20, 2005 I thought I had it.Ok, I recently litterly found a spare drive in my room.It's a 80 GIG Westeren Digitel, and I installed as a slave drive.(I know I installed it correctly, because i checked my Bios and it lists both my Primary Master and Primary Slave drive).Now, What I do with it? Lol..Ya, I installed and now I need to know whats so good about it.and How do I acess my slave drive? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
IEatHardDrives Posted August 20, 2005 Report Share Posted August 20, 2005 It should be listed in "My Computer" start saving stuff to it lol more porn lol. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Schusterjo Posted August 20, 2005 Report Share Posted August 20, 2005 I thought I had it.OK, I recently litterly found a spare drive in my room.It's a 80 GIG Westeren Digitel, and I installed as a slave drive.(I know I installed it correctly, because i checked my Bios and it lists both my Primary Master and Primary Slave drive).Now, What I do with it? Lol..Ya, I installed and now I need to know whats so good about it.and How do I access my slave drive?<{POST_SNAPBACK}>Okay if you see it in the bios then what else you need to do is make sure you have the jumper on back of the drive set to "slave "or cable select"As the master drive jumper set to "master or "cable select"Next how to access the drive, assuming you have XPClick start, my computer you will see drive labeled "local disk c: and another local disk with a label other than C (a,b,c,d,e,f,g ext...) that would be your second hard drive.Now when you save a file you just select that drive to be the optional drive to be saved on.. then when you need it just go back to that drive in my computer and right click select "explorer" find what you are looking for and that it.. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Aluvus Posted August 21, 2005 Report Share Posted August 21, 2005 You may need to partition it before you can use it for anything. See here. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
bearskin Posted August 21, 2005 Report Share Posted August 21, 2005 yea...format and partition should do it. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
DarkestDream Posted August 21, 2005 Report Share Posted August 21, 2005 Just check the Cable Select. you need the HardDrive to tell the BIOS that it salve drive in "CABLE SELECT" Quote Link to post Share on other sites
xxkbxx Posted August 21, 2005 Report Share Posted August 21, 2005 Did you buy your computer from a Dell, or Gateway, or ect.? They put the drives in (as far as I have seen) as Cable Select. Make sure the The Master is MASTER and the Slave is SLAVE. If one is MASTER and the other is CABLE SELECT it won't work right Quote Link to post Share on other sites
il_wiccan Posted August 21, 2005 Report Share Posted August 21, 2005 Just check the Cable Select. you need the HardDrive to tell the BIOS that it salve drive in "CABLE SELECT"<{POST_SNAPBACK}>Also make sure it is showing up in the BIOS. if not then I bet you have a cable problem..... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Parrotgeek7 Posted August 22, 2005 Report Share Posted August 22, 2005 try making it the only drive connected and boot into your bios, that will be the quickest way for you to determine 1) if it shows up and 2) what it shows up as with the jumpers in a certain position. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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