i am getting a Maxtor 60GB EIDE Hard Drive Ultra ATA133 7200RPM -White Lable-(GS_GEN60GB)and i have a maxtor 16.2gb hard drive and a cd burner and a dvd-rom drive....
How do you install like what do i make master or slave or primary or secondary??
and what about setting jumpers and do i need to do anything in bios??
thanks alot
timalan

well, its all very easy.
one quick question though.. will the new 60GB be the one loading the OS? if so, a reformat / install is in your future. otherwise, you can get right to it. okay, you have BOTH, a PRIMARY and SECONDARY. and on each of these, you have a MASTER and a SLAVE. you already have a dual CDROM setup so this shouldn't be too difficult. people have their own ways of doing this, i don't think either of which matters. when running 4 EIDE devices such as your (and mine) setup, they run one hard drive (Primary master) and have a CDROM (primary slave) then CDROM / hard drive setup on secondary. my setup is C and F ( both hard drives on primary) and D and E ( DVD / CDRW on secondary) never had one problem. on the back of all of these devices there are tabs that identify the jumper settings. most likely theres a diagram on the device telling you where to put them for a Master / Slave setup. if you don't feel like going thru a XP install then hook up your 60GB as primary slave. this way, after you installed it, booted up, go into Your Computer settings, go to properties of new drive and select format. after its done, your ready to store your files. and as far as the BIOS is concerned, unless you've disabled it, it'll pick it up. be safe and check it, set it to AUTO CHECK if it isn't, and your in there. one of the more simplistic tasks that is out there. any probs or questions, post up.

Hey Person51 thanks for replying...
Ok here is what i want to do...
I want to put winxp pro on my new 60gb and put Linux on my 16.2 drive....
I already to decide to reformat my hard drive now that has winxp pro on now and install mandrake 9.1....
is it possible to install winxppro on the 60gb and partitioning it and using 15gb to install win98se so i can play old games that won't play on winxp pro...
thanks again for replying and take care
timalan

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/archive/2/2002/02/4/14025

Dual boot XP & Linux on 2 seperate HD's

http://www.techtv.com/screensavers/answerstips/story/0,24330,3346823,00.html

How to set up a triple boot system

johnw thanks alot...
i will do that when i get my new hard drive...
i am going to do a fresh reformat and go on from there...
thanks again and take care...
timalan

set up your new hd as the slave first, and install your main OS on that drive since it is the faster one. after that, you can choose to either make it the master or the slave, although it shouldnt really matter.

Hi there,
I've set up my 2nd hard drive as you have suggested & formatted it ok (I'm using XP Pro), but the only way I can seem to use the 2nd drive is by going into the disk manager, which shows both my C drive (old one) & the G drive (new one I've just installed). I can copy & move stuff into it by doing this, but the new G drive doesn't appear on any of the drop down options when selecting a drive or in explorer - any suggestions as to what I'm doing wrong ?

cheers
Mike