Adding Second hard dirve

[bunafireman825]

I am about to attempt to install a second used hard drive, this drive uses an Ide cable the master uses sata. The ide cable i have runs one of the cd roms i have. How can i install this hd a slave with the master using sata, also this drive has xp installed on it so i do not want it to boot from it, i really just need to get some pictures and things off it then format and use as slave.



Found out i can use drive with the ide cable but still do not know if it needs to be set to master or slave due to the cd rom being on the same cable



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[patio]

Slave if you don't want it to boot.

MB==========================Master=========Slave.

[bunafireman825]

The master uses sata cable do i still Slave?

[patio]

I would...but it may not matter...

[BC_Programmer]

SATA doesn't have a concept of Slave and master. Each SATA connection on a motherboard connects to one device; there is no sharing between two devices of the SATA connection.

Boot order generally goes from lower to higher numbered slots.

[bunafireman825]

Installed drive using ide drive jumper to slave then to cdrom. Used boot menu to set sata drive a primary boot, everything works well.


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[bunafireman825]

The used hd has a partition for system recovery on it how do i go about making it work for this computer now.

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[quaxo]

The used hd has a partition for system recovery on it how do i go about making it work for this computer now.

If that system recover partition wasn't designed for that computer and you have no plans on putting it into the computer it came out of again, you can just remove all the partitions and make a new one to cover the whole drive.

The system restore partition will only work with a computer it was designed to work with in most cases.