Adding a second hard drive

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  1. muay

    muay Regular member

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    Hi,
    Ok so a friend give me a computer that he could not get to work,turned out it needed a new PSU so its now up and running. Thing is i wanted to put my HD in out of my computer which is a 120GB Maxtor Maxtor 6Y120L0 (IDE) it has a hard drive in it already a samsung SATA one,so i fitted my HD in it. When it starts up it sees the samsung one but when it comes on its my HD that comes on. what i would like to do is have mine as a secondary one. But am not sure how to do it. Can anyone help Thank You.
    Operating System
    MS Windows XP Professional 32-bit SP2
    CPU
    AMD Athlon XP
    Barton 0.13um Technology
    RAM
    1.0GB DDR @ 166MHz (2.5-3-3-7)
    Motherboard
    Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. GA-7VAXP Ultra (Socket A)
     
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    have to go into the bios to see if your maxtor is seen.
     
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  3. muay

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    Yes i can see the maxtor one in bios its listed as IDE Primary Slave,thing is the Maxtor one is starting to fail so i would like to drag some stuff off it onto the samsung drive.
    Thanks
     
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    with both drives connected, is it the samsung that is booting or the maxtor as it appears in your 1st post?
     
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    Sorry for not been very clear, its the maxtor one that is booting up.
     
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    in the bios, change the boot order so that the samsung boots 1st not the maxtor.
     
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    yes its set to boot from the samsung one first do you think it could have anything todo with what solt the ide cable is in i have 4 to pick from.
     
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    Thats great thank you its all up and running, thanks for your time and help.
     
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    no problem, teach & learn.
     
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