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Help Please!! Can't install second HD

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Name: Palmer
Date: October 20, 2000 at 21:54:22 Pacific
Subject: Help Please!! Can't install second HD
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Okay i have a 10gb western digital hard drive in my computer right now and its working fine. I have a 13gb Quantum and i want to add it but my computer wont detect it. I set the jumper for Master on my 10gb and slave on my 13gb and it wont detect any drives. I tried to set my 13gb just as a single drive but it wont detect it either, the only drive that seems to work is my 10gb setup for single. Please Help. Maybe i'm doing somthing wrong can someone give me step-by-step direction to install both hd's from scratch (formatted)


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Response Number 1
Name: The Doofus
Date: October 20, 2000 at 21:57:59 Pacific
Subject: Help Please!! Can't install second HD
Reply: (edit)

Here is a step by step:http://www.pcguide.com/proc/physinst/hdd-c.html


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Response Number 2
Name: Robert Holland
Date: October 21, 2000 at 06:12:17 Pacific
Subject: Help Please!! Can't install second HD
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two ways:

either make the Quantum drive the master and the western digital drive the slave on the same cable.

or put the second drive on a seperate cable and put it on the secondary master port.

That way you could use both drives as master.

however make sure you go into the bios and change the setting from not installed to auto, that way it should work.


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Response Number 3
Name: Jud
Date: October 23, 2000 at 21:43:22 Pacific
Subject: Help Please!! Can't install second HD
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something that might be of some help: alternate jumper settings for WD harddrives. look at WD webiste, westerndigital.com/service/ET/altj810.htm


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