Adding a second hard drive

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I'm about to buy a second hard drive for my pc. I'm probably going for Seagate or Maxtor. I'm only buying it to add a second hard drive to store anime, game trailers, and other misc stuff for my pc. I'm just wondering do I need a windows xp disc for it? I hope not since my brother accidently threw it away. Another thing I passed by wal mart today and seen a seagate one that says "upgrade kit internal drive". Is there anything different about that?

I'm thinking the only thing I have to do is install the second hard drive in and connect the cables together. Then turn it on and install the hard drive software and thats it??
 
[quote name='989boi']I'm about to buy a second hard drive for my pc. I'm probably going for Seagate or Maxtor. I'm only buying it to add a second hard drive to store anime, game trailers, and other misc stuff for my pc. I'm just wondering do I need a windows xp disc for it? I hope not since my brother accidently threw it away. Another thing I passed by wal mart today and seen a seagate one that says "upgrade kit internal drive". Is there anything different about that?

I'm thinking the only thing I have to do is install the second hard drive in and connect the cables together. Then turn it on and install the hard drive software and thats it??[/QUOTE]
set the new drive to slave, install it and run the sofware. No need for window disc.
 
You can either run the software that comes w/ the HD or do it manually through computer management in administrative tools. The "upgrade kit internet drive" you saw at Wal-mart is the same thing.

You'll also need screws...
 
[quote name='989boi']I'm only buying it to add a second hard drive to store hentai, porn and more porn for my pc.[/QUOTE]There...fixed it for you. It's ok, you don't have to lie.;)
 
rarely a need to install software that comes with an HD. Just need to go to
control panel -> administrative tools -> computer management. Click on Disk Management, right click on your new drive (which should be grayed out), convert to a dynamic drive and format.

Screws just about always come with the drive, Retail, OEM or otherwise. Cable select seems to be the easiest way to deal with drives. However, I've not actually tried it myself.
 
I've had drives that will only show up as 32GB if you DON'T use cable select.

[quote name='capitalist_mao']rarely a need to install software that comes with an HD. Just need to go to
control panel -> administrative tools -> computer management. Click on Disk Management, right click on your new drive (which should be grayed out), convert to a dynamic drive and format.

Screws just about always come with the drive, Retail, OEM or otherwise. Cable select seems to be the easiest way to deal with drives. However, I've not actually tried it myself.[/QUOTE]
 
[quote name='Kayden']I've had drives that will only show up as 32GB if you DON'T use cable select.[/QUOTE]
I've encountered drives that have 32 Gigs as an option with the Jumper, but never as a forced option.
 
Not really so much of an option as a limitation. For some reason they just couldn't access anything beyond 32GB as a slave drive. It was fine on master and cable select but would have nothing to do with slave. I guess I had a very civic minded HDD. :lol:

[quote name='capitalist_mao']I've encountered drives that have 32 Gigs as an option with the Jumper, but never as a forced option.[/QUOTE]
 
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