Two questions (HDD and PSU)

dougland

dougland

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First i have an older hard drive that was in broke down system, it has XP loaded on it. I want use this HDD as a second HDD what do i have to do to make it work? Can i just plug it in (using the correct cable and jumper setting) and would it work as a second HDD? Secon i have a 300watt PSU and am wondering if two HDD and a single dvd/cd rw drive is okay to run. Im running onboard graphics, and the hard drives would be an 80GB (Main) and the secondary as 120GB.
 
dougland said:
First i have an older hard drive that was in broke down system, it has XP loaded on it. I want use this HDD as a second HDD what do i have to do to make it work? Can i just plug it in (using the correct cable and jumper setting) and would it work as a second HDD?
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Yes.

dougland said:
Secon i have a 300watt PSU and am wondering if two HDD and a single dvd/cd rw drive is okay to run. Im running onboard graphics, and the hard drives would be an 80GB (Main) and the secondary as 120GB.
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Your PSU should power everything.
 
I just checked the drivee is a 160GB Seagate and my primary drive would be the 80GB Westerd Digital. So i can just plug it in and then go about deleteing things off of it in "my computer"?
 
dougland said:
I just checked the drivee is a 160GB Seagate and my primary drive would be the 80GB Westerd Digital. So i can just plug it in and then go about deleteing things off of it in "my computer"?
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Yeah, just make sure you set the correct hard drive to boot in the BIOS. Don't boot from the second hard drive, in other words.
 
so if i shut my computer down, plug this secondary drive in (on thew secondary drive cable and set the jumper to cable select or secondary) will i have to go into the bios? or will it automatically boot from my primary drive and just have this one be the slave/secondary? ANd do you guys think its safe with my power supply?
 
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dougland said:
so if i shut my computer down, plug this secondary drive in (on thew secondary drive cable and set the jumper to cable select or secondary) will i have to go into the bios? or will it automatically boot from my primary drive and just have this one be the slave/secondary?
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Set the WD to master and the Seagate to slave. Turn on your computer and enter the BIOS. In the BIOS, there should be a section, or sub-section, labeled "hard disk boot priority" or somethin'. Make sure the WD is set to boot first. When you enter Windows, the hard drive partitions on the Seagate should show up in the My Computer section.
 
Cool simple enough. I actually just started playing in the bios the other day i should be able to find it. Also i have anoterh question regaurding the bios. It had a setting about waiting for hard disk to spin down or something and it was like 0-5 seconds and mine is set at 0 i assume it is when it turns on/off or somethinf from the computer should i set it at a delay at all?
 
dougland said:
It had a setting about waiting for hard disk to spin down or something and it was like 0-5 seconds and mine is set at 0 i assume it is when it turns on/off or somethinf from the computer should i set it at a delay at all?
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I'm not sure. I'd leave it at the default setting.
 
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