Install a second HD

Question

I currently have a 8400 with a 160gig SATA drive.  I want to add a 2nd SATA drive, 2nd drive has an operating system on it that needs to be deleted.    How do I install the 2nd drive.  I do not see a way to make is a slave drive.  Where are the jumpers on a SATA drive?  How can this be done.   Thanks, Felix

nau1977 · Answer

Cool.

I just intalled a second (brand new) 160 SATA last week.

All I did, was plug the power cable and SATA cable. Go into BIOS, and enable SATA1 (or whatever MB plug you plugged HD SATA cable into). Reboot. It should now recognize both. When you get into windows, it will already know what order the HDs are in. All I did then was download the Maxtor utilities and had the software prepare the hard drive for system. After that it was done.

It may be similar for you.

nyrfan · Answer

Will I have a problem since both drives have an operating system on it? Felix

nau1977 · Answer

I haven't, because of the settings in BIOS.  It should boot off the primary HD and MBR.

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