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Recovery CD | Quick Restore | Second Partition Primary HDD
I fitted a 20GB disk but apart from booting up a little more slowly I had no indication the machine recognised the disk. basically I want to know how to install a second disk in this machine, preferably 20-30GB. Step by step instructions as although I can physically fit the thing , setting up I haven'ta clue!

I am thinking of installing Linux, on my second HDD, to run SETI.
I haven't tried swapping just the second HDD onto the secondary IDE - as I'd like to retain the CD-ROM and DVD I currently have paired on that channel, I believe mixing and matching would give much poorer performance on the HDDs as they would be limited to UDMA 2. Rgds, Lambert I am using an 80 wire IDE cable for

installing a second hard drive
Sci_F...@yahoo.com comp sys ibm pc hardware storage You need to install a Disk Drive Overlay(DDO) program to recognize the entire drive. DDO programs can be found at on-track, ibm storage, maxtor, etc. Install the program on your windows 98 (with your fireball as the slave) and basically it will add software

Installing a second hard drive - how do a format it - fdisk?
I currently have one hdd and cdrom daisy chained together onto one IDE controller. I want to install a second hdd and put it on the second IDE controller. Is the second hdd considered a master or a slave on the second IDE controller? Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/

Trouble installing 2nd HDD to IDE Controller Card
JS @ microsoft public windowsxp hardware Try removing the jumper (no jumper) on the second drive, sometimes this will work. JS "JDShine" <shinero...@myisp.net> wrote in message news:e1vp$889GHA.1220@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... I am experiencing difficulty attempting to install a second HDD to a 'I/O Flex Ultra ATA/133

Help Installing Quantum Bigfoot TS 12.7 GB HDD as a Slave Drive.
I'm looking for suggestions for the best way to install XP on second HDD that will occupy my laptop's Ultrabay. The challenge is when my HDD is occupying my Ultrabay, I have no CD-ROM. If I copy my XP source files from the XP setup disc to my primary HDD (containing XP Pro), will I be able to install a clean

Problem installing 2nd hdd on a P6SBA
I plan to partition the new drive with the XP CD and use Partition Magic to partition the existing HDD. I have many questions but will start with these. If I partition 'C' prior to installing the second HDD should I skip 'F' while lettering my extended partitions so that when XP on the second HDD becomes 'D' then

Installing FreeBSD onto second HDD
Alfred Perlstein bri...@wintelcom.net mailing freebsd questions * Tamgiao Nguyen <tnguy...@umbc.edu> [000723 11:27] wrote: Hi, 1> Is it possible to install FreeBSD, IN ITS ENTIRETY, onto the second IDE HDD? (All 4 primary partitions on my first HDD are in use.) 2> Must FreeBSD be installed to a primary partition

Trouble installing 2nd HDD to IDE Controller Card
Simply obtain another connection cable, plug it into this socket & the other end (or the middle position into your new HDD. HTH -- Regards, John J. Burness, Bedfordshire, UK <dales...@ic24.net> wrote in message news:1l5bs75voadlc1k9lg7rv7ph9ihvkmp4qv@4ax.com... Hi, I want to install a second HDD.

installing 2nd hdd in PB 486
I have never partitioned a HDD before so I have a couple of simple questions related to the changes below: I currently have IDE0 - Master = C: (4 GB HDD which will stay that way after changes) Drive D: = CD-ROM Drive E: = CD-RW When I install the second HDD things will be hooked up as such: IDE0 - Master = current

Installing 2nd drive - please advise.
Vegaz ve...@hotmail.com alt os windows xp alt windows-xp OK, I am a bit confused here - I need to install a second hard drive but don't know which one?? At present I have a P3500, WinXP and SisoftSandra tells me my present Hd is a QUANTUM FIREBALL CX13.6A. ATA/66 compliant.Can I stick in any old hd in there with it

Installing Windows2000 on my second HDD
Just for shits and giggles, have you tried installing this drive a single master just to test it and see what happens? Jeff Rich/rerat <rerat0...@yahoo.com> It will not show the second HDD as a slave. If I reboot, on the BOOT menu, I lose the primary HDD also. They both display as "None" in the device found.

Installing RH7.1 on second HDD without touching first HDD (C:\)?
I had thought, when I installed Vista on the new third hard drive, it would automatically give me that option during boot, but it didn't. I'll check it out and see what I can do Btw, no I did not have my main drive that XP is on unplugged when installing the Vista Ultimate full version on the new drive.

Installing LINUX on second HDD
<<S>> s...@ntlworld.com microsoft public win2000 hardware Having never installed a second hdd drive before, I wondered if anyone could tell me where I might have gone wrong. Up until installing the 2nd drive everything was ok. First off I'll mention the basic spec: P6SBA PII 350Mhz 128Mb PC100 Dimm Primary Master

Installing second HDD
CEX8 wrote: Hi, I currently use WinXP but would like to install Linux on a second HDD. Can anyone advise me the best way to do this and whether the Win or Linux drive should be set as primary and whether it will actually work? Thanks Quick answer(s). WinXP only want's to live on the first or "C" drive.

Installing XP on second HDD
--Remainder of ~5-6 GB for storage of program installation files, whether downloaded or moved to HD from other media for faster access (like it's wise to do with MS Office installation files before installing.) Your second hard drive should be reserved for backup storage, at least, or perhaps further large-file

installing a second hdd
The second, smaller partition D:2 is formatted FAT12 (???) and is being read by Windows Explorer. (Have not yet used Driver Converter to change this FAT12 to FAT32) Note that when Fdisk is first run, it advises that there are NTFS partitions on the second HDD and asks whether they should be treated as large

HELP: installing second HDD
Hello, Is it possible to boot windows 2000 from the second hard drive or should it always be on the first hard disk. I am planning to buy a new hard disk but I don't want to disturb my old hard disk by installing another OS on it which would require re-partitioning( I would like to use NTFS, not the current FAT32).

Vista now needs CD to boot after installing XP on slave--suggestio
Ogden Johnson III oj3u...@yahoo.com alt sys pc-clone dell "Rocket J. Squirrel" <ro...@bullwinkle.com> wrote: Hello all: I'm about to install a second hard drive in my Dim4500. Shouldn't be a problem, but I do have these two questions: 1) Dell's directions say to "Remove the first hard drive from the upper bay and

Problems after installing 2nd hdd
John Baldwin j...@pike.osd.bsdi.com mailing freebsd questions Nimrod Mesika wrote: On Sun, Jul 23, 2000 at 11:42:19AM -0700, Alfred Perlstein wrote: * Tamgiao Nguyen <tnguy...@umbc.edu> [000723 11:27] wrote: Hi, 1> Is it possible to install FreeBSD, IN ITS ENTIRETY, onto the second IDE HDD? (All 4 primary partitions