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Adding another harddrive


I plan on buying a 250gig HDD. Currently, i have a 60gig and a 160gig. I have never installed a 3rd drive before. Will I need to just attach it as master on my secondary IDE line? (and switch optical to slave of course)

    
randruff

how many optical drives do you have

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elmarcorulz

1 optical drive

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randruff

do you have an extra slot on the ide cable

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elmarcorulz

Yeh, you should have an extra port on the cable for your optical drive. That's where you want to plug it in, and change the master/slave setting like you said. You will probably need to format it, but I've heard that some drives come formatted, so maybe not.

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joshj


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Originally Posted by joshj


Yeh, you should have an extra port on the cable for your optical drive. That's where you want to plug it in, and change the master/slave setting like you said. You will probably need to format it, but I've heard that some drives come formatted, so maybe not.

may aswell format it anyway, its not gonna hurt it

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