Computer peeps..

[myway]

My friend added another hard drive to her computer and is trying to transfer the files from one to the other. Someone told her she needed to set one hard drive as slave? Or something like that. Anyone know anything about this stuff?

 

[redguru]

If she bought the hard drive from a retailer there should be a tools CD that came with it. Normally, there is a utility on that cd to transfer the files and boot block over to the new drive.

If she has both drives in the computer you have to jumper one drive as master and the other as slave for both drives to be recognized properly.

 

[drsketch]

What kind of HDD?
PATA?
Sata?

If its PATA and is sharing an IDE cable with another device then you will need to toggle the jumper that is on the hdd between cable select, master, and slave. the first HDD on the cable would be master the second one slave. some can be configured to both be cable select.

 

[billfred]

Could you change your Avatar - I keep thinking I am reading post from Jon79.

 

[myway]

Could you change your Avatar - I keep thinking I am reading post from Jon79.

Your opinion really matters to me and I hate to cause you any frustrations. However, sometimes I need to do things myway.

 

[myway]

If she bought the hard drive from a retailer there should be a tools CD that came with it. Normally, there is a utility on that cd to transfer the files and boot block over to the new drive.

If she has both drives in the computer you have to jumper one drive as master and the other as slave for both drives to be recognized properly.

This is prolly the problem. If she doesn't have the CD, how does she set one to master and the other to slave?

 

[chris302001]

There should be little switches on the back. If she needs to, she could probably download whatever was on the CD from the manufacturer's website

 

[billfred]

Your opinion really matters to me and I hate to cause you any frustrations. However, sometimes I need to do things myway.

 

[Razorguns]

Set drives as master/slave.

If you have sofwtare dvd - boot from DVD and let it copy all the data over to the new drive.

Remove old drive, reset jumpers - then boot normally.

Or take it to best buy/geek squad and let them do it.

r

 

[drsketch]

I guess ill stop giving my expert advice. I charge people 85$ and up an hour so enjoy it