hard drive

[joe kc]

ok i had an old computer and i fried the motherboard and i took out the harddrive and now i want to put it in my new computer.the hard drive could have some virises on it,so how do i install the 2nd hard drive and wipe it clean at the same time??

[GX1_Man]

Make sure the drives are set to run as master and slave (there are jumpers on the drive to configure this) and then install the second hard drive (frm the fried computer). This will be the slave drive. When Windows boots up, find the drive in My COmputer, right click and select format. All data from this drive will be removed along with the viruses.

Is that what you wanted?

By the way if this is a Dell (you didn't say) then both drives must be jumpered as CS (cable select) and the main drive must be plugged in furthest from the motherboard.