My father's PC has 2 hard drives. One attached through the ribbon cable (C
drive) and other through the raid (red cable). He wants to add a third hard
drive to act as a drive to save/backup his data. The new drive is Hitachi
Deskstar which I beleive is IDE.

Can anyone please tell us how to attach this to the system, there is a place
for it in the CPU. Please explain every step to be taken as I have not done
such an excersise before.

Thanks

Read the instruction leaflet that came with the hard drive.
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"Mariam" <Mariam@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:B2BFB901-CDF7-43A2-AA60-260EB29FEB41@microsoft.com...
> My father's PC has 2 hard drives. One attached through the ribbon cable (C
> drive) and other through the raid (red cable). He wants to add a third
> hard
> drive to act as a drive to save/backup his data. The new drive is Hitachi
> Deskstar which I beleive is IDE.
>
> Can anyone please tell us how to attach this to the system, there is a
> place
> for it in the CPU. Please explain every step to be taken as I have not
> done
> such an excersise before.
>
> Thanks

There were no instructions received with the drive, that is reason for my
question. Thanks anyway.

"Cari (MS-MVP)" wrote:

> Read the instruction leaflet that came with the hard drive.
> --
> Cari (MS-MVP)
> Printing & Imaging
> http://www.coribright.com/windows
>
>
>
> "Mariam" <Mariam@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:B2BFB901-CDF7-43A2-AA60-260EB29FEB41@microsoft.com...
> > My father's PC has 2 hard drives. One attached through the ribbon cable (C
> > drive) and other through the raid (red cable). He wants to add a third
> > hard
> > drive to act as a drive to save/backup his data. The new drive is Hitachi
> > Deskstar which I beleive is IDE.
> >
> > Can anyone please tell us how to attach this to the system, there is a
> > place
> > for it in the CPU. Please explain every step to be taken as I have not
> > done
> > such an excersise before.
> >
> > Thanks
>
>
>

www.hitachigst.com and pick the drive you have.
All the information is there. You have not supplied enough information
than what would get you more than a cursory reply. There are so many
variables, that anything more would just get you lost.
A better suggestion would be to take system and drive to the people
you bought the drive from and have them install and test it.

"Mariam" <Mariam@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:B2BFB901-CDF7-43A2-AA60-260EB29FEB41@microsoft.com...
| My father's PC has 2 hard drives. One attached through the ribbon
cable (C
| drive) and other through the raid (red cable). He wants to add a
third hard
| drive to act as a drive to save/backup his data. The new drive is
Hitachi
| Deskstar which I beleive is IDE.
|
| Can anyone please tell us how to attach this to the system, there is
a place
| for it in the CPU. Please explain every step to be taken as I have
not done
| such an excersise before.
|
| Thanks

Mariam <Mariam@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>My father's PC has 2 hard drives. One attached through the ribbon cable (C
>drive) and other through the raid (red cable). He wants to add a third hard
>drive to act as a drive to save/backup his data. The new drive is Hitachi
>Deskstar which I beleive is IDE.
>
>Can anyone please tell us how to attach this to the system, there is a place
>for it in the CPU. Please explain every step to be taken as I have not done
>such an excersise before.
>

The exact details will depend on what other disk drives are installed
in the computer, such as CDROMs, DVDs, etc. and also on how the drive
controllers are configured.

The "raid" drive is almost certainly a SATA drive. A RAID
installation involves multiple hard drives that are configured to
appear as one single drive.


Does the ribbon cable connected to the C: drive have a second, unused
connector on it?

What is the make and model of the C: drive? It may require a change
in the configuration jumper setting.

The answers to the above questions should allow us to give specific
detailed instructions regarding this setup.

Good luck

Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
--
Microsoft MVP (1997 - 2006)
On-Line Help Computer Service
http://onlinehelp.bc.ca

Cari (MS-MVP) wrote:
>
> Read the instruction leaflet that came with the hard drive.

Sounds like some flyer dropped from airplanes in Iraq.










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