Gah! Master And Slave Drive!


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I thought I had it.

Ok, I recently litterly found a spare drive in my room.

It's a 80 GIG Westeren Digitel, and I installed as a slave drive.

(I know I installed it correctly, because i checked my Bios and it lists both my Primary Master and Primary Slave drive).

Now, What I do with it? Lol..

Ya, I installed and now I need to know whats so good about it.

and How do I acess my slave drive?

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I thought I had it.

OK, I recently litterly found a  spare drive in my room.

It's a 80 GIG Westeren Digitel, and I installed as a slave drive.

(I know I installed it correctly, because i checked my Bios and it lists both my Primary Master and Primary Slave drive).

Now, What I do with it? Lol..

Ya, I installed and now I need to know whats so good about it.

and How do I access my slave drive?

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Okay if you see it in the bios then what else you need to do is make sure you have the jumper on back of the drive set to "slave "or cable select"

As the master drive jumper set to "master or "cable select"

Next how to access the drive, assuming you have XP

Click start, my computer you will see drive labeled "local disk c: and another local disk with a label other than C (a,b,c,d,e,f,g ext...) that would be your second hard drive.

Now when you save a file you just select that drive to be the optional drive to be saved on.. then when you need it just go back to that drive in my computer and right click select "explorer" find what you are looking for and that it..

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Did you buy your computer from a Dell, or Gateway, or ect.? They put the drives in (as far as I have seen) as Cable Select. Make sure the The Master is MASTER and the Slave is SLAVE. If one is MASTER and the other is CABLE SELECT it won't work right

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