Author Topic: quick computer question (Read 116 times)

Da WCC Hopar! · « **on:** June 17, 2005, 06:59:12 PM »

okay here the thing i took a harddrive off a computer from skool that they were ganna throw away. its a WD 40 gig HD. i want to put that in my comp as a storage drive. heres where the problem comes. i know there is a OS installed on the the hard drive so i was wonderin how can i delete the OS? i mean i tried hookin it up to my comp wit my HD and the new one and it tell me there are no drives installed. so i unplugged my HD and plugged just the new wen i do this it takes me to a blue screen where is says "if u are seein this errror for the first time restart your comp, in not the do blah blah...." wat can i do to clean the HD and use it as storage

Rampant · « **Reply #1 on:** June 17, 2005, 07:09:36 PM »

ill try to make this easy to understand.

You need to set your primary hard drive as the primary, and your storage drive as a slave.

if you look in the back of the hard drive there are little pins and a piece of plastic overlapping 2 of them. Thats how you set it.
you need to find a manual online for the hard drive you got to see which pins are for primary and slave.

it should work then.

Da WCC Hopar! · « **Reply #2 on:** June 17, 2005, 07:21:22 PM »

Quote from: Rampant on June 17, 2005, 07:09:36 PM

ill try to make this easy to understand.

You need to set your primary hard drive as the primary, and your storage drive as a slave.

if you look in the back of the hard drive there are little pins and a piece of plastic overlapping 2 of them. Thats how you set it.
you need to find a manual online for the hard drive you got to see which pins are for primary and slave.

it should work then.

ya i no i guess i need one of those pin covers cuz the one i got from skool doesnt have one. but my question is will the system run 2 HDs wit windows 2000 pro on one and xp home on the other at the same time?