I need to(or can I?) add a IDE slave hdd to a pc that has a SATA hdd as a master, if I plug it into a ide socket, do I need to do anything with the jumper settings or bios?:unsure:
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I need to(or can I?) add a IDE slave hdd to a pc that has a SATA hdd as a master, if I plug it into a ide socket, do I need to do anything with the jumper settings or bios?:unsure:
try checking if your bios allows you to have a boot order containing 2 different hdd's you could then have SATA-IDE-blah blah blah
if not just try it with out doing anything, but i think you should put the jumper on the ide to slave
There is no problem with what you want to do. Just be sure the drive doesn't have a master boot record so it won't boot. The drive will then be accessible in Windows.
Nah, no boot record, it was a slave in another pc.
Now I know it can be done I'll have a go, cheers guys.:D
cheers :holds glass up:
i had the same question the other day! glad i read this. thanks for the info peeps. :D