Adding to the pile
What do you have on the old drive? Do you plan to continue using it?
Basically, it is a good idea to use the smaller of the two drives to hold
Windows and any installed apps. A drive having 160GB will be more than
enoug for this. The larger drive is used to keep your data files, that is,
the
files that you create using your applications, such as Word, Excel,
Powerpoint,
etc.
Good luck with your project!!! Saga
"Stewart" <anyone@supanet.com> wrote in message
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> Question answered, I am setting the new drive as slave and then install
> Windows 7 on it, later on will change start up order.
>
>
>
> "Stewart" <anyone@supanet.com> wrote in message
> news:hn64ac$99u$1@speranza.aioe.org...
>> Thanks everybody, I am getting there.
>> Took the drive back to-day and they changed it for the correct type so
>> now fitted and ready to go.
>> I am typing this on laptop as still deciding how to format disk etc.
>> I have looked up the maxtor and western digital hard drive info to see
>> how the jumpers should be set; I want the new drive to be the master and
>> old one to be slave.
>> I am waiting for my son to advice me on setting up the new drive.
>> Obviously the old drive has always been the C drive and I am not sure
>> when formatting the new drive whether to call it C or D - my cd drives
>> would then become E and F.
>> The problem with that is that all the programmes etc in the old drive are
>> filed under C - something.
>> Once I have Windows7 up and running I shall let you know - it has been a
>> learning process thanks to you.
>>
>>
>>
>> "Patrick Keenan" <test@dev.null> wrote in message
>> news:wradnUuh0OwqVQjWnZ2dnUVZ_uydnZ2d@supernews.com...
>>> "Stewart" <him@invalid.supanet.co.uk> wrote in message
>>> news:hn3j57$35f$1@speranza.aioe.org...
>>>> just to update; I bought a 1GB ram to-day and it installed no bother
>>>> bowever the shop sold me an internal hard drive with a "Sata"
>>>> connection instead of serial so I shall probably have to take the whole
>>>> thing back to them and get them to sort it out. I had taken the
>>>> ilustration of the hard drive with me and showed them that as well as
>>>> saying that I had bought the power unit from them with the ribbon
>>>> connections.
>>>> They tell me I can get an adaptor but there does not seem to be
>>>> anywhere in the motherboard to connect to. I have looked at Maplin's
>>>> site but do not see a serial to sata adaptor.
>>>> Will keep group undated.
>>>
>>> As others have pointed out, your motherboard apparently does not support
>>> serial - which *is* SATA - drives.
>>>
>>> You want PATA, sometimes called IDE, drives. These drives have a
>>> 40-pin connector, which looks nothing like the SATA connector.
>>>
>>> And there's really only the two types of drive connector.
>>>
>>> Take this one back, and say you need the other type. That's pretty
>>> much all you need to understand, at least until you get the drive home
>>> and have to set the jumpers.
>>>
>>> HTH
>>> -pk
>>
