Need help installing a secondary hard drive?
Okay. I'm trying to install a second hard drive onto this computer, but I'm running into problem after problem. Here's what I've done. I put set the Jumper for the secondary drive to slave. I replaced my single connection Hard drive cable (i guess an IDE cable?) with a 2 connection cable and placed my Master drive on the one at the end, and my secondary on the secondary connection. I booted it up and went to some setup thing by pushing F2 and set the "Primary Drive 1" setting to Auto and it came up with unknown device. Did the same in the secondary spot and it said Unknown too. I thought okay, it'll just auto detect it then. So i continued booting up the comp and went to My Computer and there's nothing there. Oh, and I'm currently running with Windows XP. I was wondering...what the heck else is there to do? Sorry I'm not exactly an expert computer user, i've just followed what i've seen on the net. Any help would be GREATLY appreciated. I'm pretty aggravated...lol
Does Windows 7 need to be installed on both hard drives if you're running an SSD and HDD?
it is not substantial if its an SSD or not, you could flow the difficult drives around and use win 7 on the two, yet there may well be motive force themes, and you'll be sure the two computers use a similar form of puzzlingpersistent hookup (ide vs sata). in case you follow the abode windows 7 default drivers (assuming they artwork on the two computers) you'll be waiting to apply it in the two. particularly i think of you could set up abode windows 7 on 3 computers for each reproduction you purchase, so which you does not could replace difficult drives.
Installing Second HardDrive and adding new OS(s). Primary OS XP adding Linux or more.. can I do that?
Why not consider installing Linux within Windows I thoroughly recommend Linux Mint 7 Main Edition which is Ubuntu 9.04 based. Its easy to install and easy to use plus it comes with much of the software you are likely to need preinstalled Linux Mint has a feature called mint4win based on the Wubi installer (Ubuntu) http://wubi-installer.org/ which enables you to install Linux Mint within windows (Windows 7 run mint4win in vista compatability mode) You keep Windows as it is, mint4win only adds an extra option to boot into Linux Mint. mint4win does not require you to modify the partitions of your PC, or to use a different bootloader, and does not install special drivers. It works just like any other application. mint4win like Wubi keeps most of the files in one folder, and if you do not like it, you can simply uninstall it as any other application. Linux Mint 7 Download http://www.linuxmint.com/edition.php?id=... Linux Mint 7 User Guide http://www.scribd.com/doc/15884753/Linux... You download the iso. image of Linux Mint then you need to create a Bootable LiveCD Boot in to windows insert the LiveCD you have just created and you will offered the option of installing inside windows which is where mint4win comes in, you will be asked how many gigabytes you wish to allocate to Linux Mint (I recommend 8gb) then you set a password for your installation then click install and thats it. Once Linux Mint is fully installed upon starting your PC you will be given a choice of which operating system you want to use Windows or Linux Mint. Linux Mint can also be run direct from the LiveCD from Booting up without touching your Hard Drive. CURRENT SESSION Linux Mint 6 ext3 with switchable Compiz 0.7.2* and Beryl 0.2.1** http://www.linuxmint.com/edition.php?id=31 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beryl_(window_manager) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compiz http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compiz_Fusion *Compiz 0.7.2 sourced from Ubuntu 8.04 LTS (Alpha 5) repositories **Beryl 0.2.1 sourced from Ubuntu 7.04 repositories LUg.
How to replace a harddrive that has Windows Xp Media on it, and re-install OS?
I have a Dell Dimension 9100. The 160gb Sata Hard drive has quit working. I need to reinstall a new Hard drive. I will be buying a 160gb HD to put back in there. My question is that I do not have any Original CD or DVD that came with the computer. I called Dell and they told me that its because there harddrives come partintioned with the recovery info on a partition of the hard drive. Needless to say if the hard drive fails Your screwed. I had this happen on an XP system and I have a copy of XP install CD and reinstalled the win xp OS and then called to activate useing the numbers from the sticker on back of computer. Does anyone know where I can obtain a copy of Win XP Media for the purpose of installing it. I do not need the COA because I can still read the sticker on the back of top of the computer. Or maybe someone knows another way I can install XP media??
How do I add an additional hard drive to my PC when I already have a floppy, CD, and CD burner installed?
Well there are a few ways. First see if there is another slot inside the computer that you can mount a harddrive too. It should be next to your existing hard drive. Then check the specs on the motherboard at the dell site. see if it uses the old Ultra/ATA or SATA. It probably uses sata. If so, then purchase a HD that will fit your mount, plug in the power cord (should have 2 black 1 yellow 1 red wire and imposable to plug in the wrong way) and then the SATA cord to the correct port on the mother board. Now if u want to just do it the easy way without opening the case and messing with any of that, just go to the store and buy an external harddrive that you can connect with USB. All you do is plug in the power cord, plug the USB cable into your computer, and windows will detect it as a new hard drive with no trouble. Takes about 20 min to get to the store, 10 min to find how much space you want, 5 min to stand in line, 20 min to get home, and then 5 min to hook it up. More room in less than an hour.
I have 2 hard drives on my computer. One is currently running Windows XP. I would like to install Windows 7?
Pretty easy. Just make sure everything is off the 2nd HD that you wanna keep. Load your Windows 7 installation disc and chose custom install. It will then ask you which partition/disk to use. Choose carefully as to not accidentally over write the XP disk. Follow the prompts to finish the installation. When it's complete you should see a list with XP and Windows 7 and you have a few seconds to choose which one you wanna boot. Win 7 should be the default.
Will a new installation of Windows XP force me to reformat my SATA hard drive?
NTFS doesn't have the 127GB size limit. That's a bios problem sometimes. The 1TB drive should have been partitioned into 4 parts when it was new to make it last longer, but there is no need to do that now. Windows XP isn't going to have any problems with a 1TB external, except maybe if you don't use the same user name and password after you do the clean install on the computer. On my Mac I tell it to ignore ownership on external hd's just to be sure. If you have a bios problem with 127GB drive limit, you should still be able to see the rest of the drive and free space after installing Windows. Internal serial ATA hd's are a different problem for XP. It wasn't until SP3 that there were native drivers for serial ATA. But if the drive is an external, then Windows sees it as a usb device, not a serial ATA drive.
Method One of Five:Creating a Partition in Windows Vista, 7, and 8Open the Disk Management utility.Open the Run dialog box from the Start menu or by pressing ⊞ Win+R. Typediskmgmt.msc and press ↵ Enter. This will open a window that allows you to manage all of the volumes and drives installed in your system.[1]Manage your unallocated space.Partitions are created from unallocated space or free space on your hard drive. You can create more unallocated space by shrinking an existing volume. This will remove the available storage space from that volume and turn it into unallocated space.Right-click a volume and select "Shrink Volume..." to begin the volume shrinking process. You will be able to choose how much of the free space you want to remove from the volume to turn into unallocated space.You won't be able to turn all of the available storage into unallocated space because some of that available storage is reserved for unmovable files. You can increase the space you can reclaim by defragmenting the drivefirst.If you want to merge two blocks of unallocated space together, you will need to use a tool like GParted orPartition Manager.Create the new partition. Right-click on the unallocated space and select "New Simple Volume". This will open a wizard that will walk you through the steps to create the new partition.Set the size. The first thing you will be asked is how big you want the partition to be. By default, it will be set to the same size as the entire block of unallocated space, but you can choose to make it smaller if you wish. Any unused space will remain unallocated.Assign a drive letter. All partitions need a drive letter, which allows them to have addresses for files located on the partition. You can choose any letter that you'd like as long as you don't already have a drive using that letter. Avoid using A: and B: as these are older drive letters reserved for floppy disk drives.Format the volume. Ensure that the volume is set to be formatted, otherwise you cannot use it to store files. If you are using the volume to store files for Windows, set the file system to NTFS. Enter a name for the volume in the "Volume label" field.[2]Check the "Perform a quick format" box unless you are worried that the disk is damaged.If you are going to be using the volume to install an operating system on, you don't have to worry about formatting it now.To erase. Right click on the volume or partition and delete partition.