help, i need computer help

[paintball snipy]

[OfficerGoat]

I presume that you are trying to put the extra drive in as a secondary so you can have some more space? If so it will work, however there are a couple of things I recomend you do prior to swaping it out. 1st.. format it. Boot the computer it currently resides in into dos mode and type "formatt c:" It will prompt you if you really wanna do this yada yada... Remember when you do this you will loose everything on here including windows... but I am presuming its already loaded into the machine that its going into so no big deal.

The second thing you MUST do .. you will need to change the jumper over to the "Slave" setting. This way your computer knows to boot off of the drive that is alrady installed. If you don't make this change and you install your drive on the same cable as the other your computer wont boot at all.... that would suck.

Personaly I would recomend having someone around that has a bit of experience in this stuff first.. but hey...up to you.

Good luck.

[paintball snipy]

ya, i already formatted. and yes the other one has xp and all that crap.

but do you know what the slave position is? right now it is vertical on the far left pins. sombody told me to put it horrizantel on the bottome left pins. is this right?

[PyRo]

I think the slave position depends on the hard drive. I'm pretty sure mine tells you on the back of the hard drive.

[pbzmag]

Your HD should have the jumper setting. It should be a simple graphic showing the different configurations.

[paintball snipy]

nope, doesn't tell me, but i figured it out.