Adding another harddrive

randruff

randruff

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I plan on buying a 250gig HDD. Currently, i have a 60gig and a 160gig. I have never installed a 3rd drive before. Will I need to just attach it as master on my secondary IDE line? (and switch optical to slave of course)
 
Yeh, you should have an extra port on the cable for your optical drive. That's where you want to plug it in, and change the master/slave setting like you said. You will probably need to format it, but I've heard that some drives come formatted, so maybe not.
 
joshj said:
Yeh, you should have an extra port on the cable for your optical drive. That's where you want to plug it in, and change the master/slave setting like you said. You will probably need to format it, but I've heard that some drives come formatted, so maybe not.
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may aswell format it anyway, its not gonna hurt it
 
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