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Walls206
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_ 		31. January 2007 @ 19:46 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I Just bought a new hard drive and i was wondering if there was any way i could combine it with my old hard drive to make it like one big super hard drive if not what are some suggestions i should do with my 2 hard drives.
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steimy
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_ 		1. February 2007 @ 11:51 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
yeah, you just leave the one hard drive where it is and hook the second one up as a slave drive. That is if your PC's IDE slot can support two, which most can. The IDE cable you have may even already have the second hookup and power supply.


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vegeta66
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_ 		1. February 2007 @ 14:54 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
hes talking about a raid array where 2 hard drives act as one, but it'd be to much trouble, it'd be a better idea to just use it as a second drive to store extra data.
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Ph0BoLuS
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_ 		1. February 2007 @ 15:39 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
hi, i have an old 40gb hard drive i salvaged from one of my sony computers and i'm trying to install it onto a more newer sony desktop than the one i threw away...it has an extra hard drive tray for me to put it in, it doesnt exactly fit but thats besides the point...when i connect the power cable and slave cables to the 40gb hard drive and boot up the pc i get a message saying something like "boot disk error insert system disk and press enter" does that mean the 40gb hard drive is broken and i should throw it away, or is there a solution?

Thanks in advance.
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_ 		1. February 2007 @ 15:56 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
You got the jumpers installed correctly? Original hard drive as a master and the second as a slave.
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_ 		1. February 2007 @ 16:02 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Originally posted by dvdsndict:
You got the jumpers installed correctly? Original hard drive as a master and the second as a slave.
yes, i got the jumpers installed correctly.
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