SATA Master HD and and EIDE Slave

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eXx

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Hey guys. I need some help relating to my hard drive situation right now. I have a Western Digital Caviar SE 80 GB SATA HDD that's about three years old. It's almost out of space, and my dad was kind enough to give me his old Western Digital Caviar SE 250 GB EIDE HDD. I really want to use it, but I'm not sure how I can run the two together. I want my 80 gig to be the master, because it has Windows already loaded onto it and such, but I don't know what to do with the jumper shunts to set the 250 gig as a slave, even though it would be the only drive on the IDE cable.

What do I do?
 
Set your ide drive as cable select and go into your bios and make sure that the boot drive is set for the sata drive.
 
Thanks for your help!

One quick question about getting into my BIOS, though. For some reason, I can't get into it. I have a Dell Dimension 4700 that's three years old. I'm running windows XP Home. Upon startup, it says f12 for boot menu. It that where I should go or somewhere else?
 
eXx said:
Thanks for your help!

One quick question about getting into my BIOS, though. For some reason, I can't get into it. I have a Dell Dimension 4700 that's three years old. I'm running windows XP Home. Upon startup, it says f12 for boot menu. It that where I should go or somewhere else?
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Well on my 4500 it was the delete key.
 
eXx said:
Hey guys. I need some help relating to my hard drive situation right now. I have a Western Digital Caviar SE 80 GB SATA HDD that's about three years old. It's almost out of space, and my dad was kind enough to give me his old Western Digital Caviar SE 250 GB EIDE HDD. I really want to use it, but I'm not sure how I can run the two together. I want my 80 gig to be the master, because it has Windows already loaded onto it and such, but I don't know what to do with the jumper shunts to set the 250 gig as a slave, even though it would be the only drive on the IDE cable.

What do I do?
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Why would you want to set your dads pata hard drive as slave? your current hard drive is a connected via sata and master/slave does not apply (assuming you have a sata connection not a sata to pata conversion). Just plug your dads hard drive as master, make sure the boot sequence of the sata drive comes first before any other hard drive and your good to go.
 
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Assassins Hand said:
Why would you want to set your dads pata hard drive as slave? your current hard drive is a connected via sata and master/slave does not apply (assuming you have a sata connection not a sata to pata conversion). Just plug your dads hard drive as master, make sure the boot sequence of the sata drive comes first before any other hard drive and your good to go.
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we are trying to do that, but we need to get into the bios FIRST :rolleyes:

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