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2 HDD's ..
« on: July 31, 2010, 05:18:13 pm »
Well i just came across my other HDD yesterday.. (200 gig) and i thought, instead of installing Linux on my HDD i have connected right now..

why not install it on my other HDD. My problem being that, if i was too do this im not sure if my HDD would be able to connect to my motherboard as i'm not the internal know your PC stuff guy.. (well i know basic things..).


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Re: 2 HDD's ..
« Reply #1 on: July 31, 2010, 05:20:51 pm »
You could always ...

Take out both HDD's, stick them in external USB HDD enclosures for a tenner each, put Linux on one and Windows on the other, then plug in the one you want to use at any given time and boot off it .. ??
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Re: 2 HDD's ..
« Reply #2 on: July 31, 2010, 05:24:09 pm »
Quote from: Mad Penguin on July 31, 2010, 05:20:51 pm
You could always ...

Take out both HDD's, stick them in external USB HDD enclosures for a tenner each, put Linux on one and Windows on the other, then plug in the one you want to use at any given time and boot off it .. ??

See thats another problem i still have to sort :/
my front 4 USB slots arent working and all my USB slots in the back are full.
I was thinking about doing as you said.. but the USB thing is doing my head in.
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Re: 2 HDD's ..
« Reply #3 on: July 31, 2010, 06:27:02 pm »
OK is the drive you've found IDE or SATA?, if it has a million pins at one end it's IDE, and as long as your other drive is also IDE (and you only have one installed) you WILL be able to connect it, as you can connect 2 IDE devices to the same cable, you just have to set one as master and the other as slave.

if it's SATA, you will need to see if there is a spare SATA connector on your motherboard.
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Re: 2 HDD's ..
« Reply #4 on: July 31, 2010, 06:59:15 pm »
Quote from: Mark Greaves (PCNetSpec) on July 31, 2010, 06:27:02 pm
OK is the drive you've found IDE or SATA?, if it has a million pins at one end it's IDE, and as long as your other drive is also IDE (and you only have one installed) you WILL be able to connect it, as you can connect 2 IDE devices to the same cable, you just have to set one as master and the other as slave.

if it's SATA, you will need to see if there is a spare SATA connector on your motherboard.

Got a pic?

Sometimes i find things difficult to understand. And a picture speaks more than a thousand words :D.
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Re: 2 HDD's ..
« Reply #5 on: July 31, 2010, 07:13:36 pm »
IDE will look like this - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_ATA
SATA like this - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_ATA

SATA (Serial ATA) and IDE (Parallel ATA) hard drives



SATA data cable



IDE data cable



Wikipedia and Google can be very helpful sometimes. ;)
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Re: 2 HDD's ..
« Reply #6 on: August 01, 2010, 09:58:34 am »
Yey! That helped alot. Oh and yeah, its a IDE HDD.
All i have to do now, I go and open my old girl up, and see what kind of HDD she's running... Most likely IDE right?
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Re: 2 HDD's ..
« Reply #7 on: August 01, 2010, 11:38:37 am »
Depends . SATA had been pretty standard now for the last 3 or 4 years ... indeed SATA III has recently become available (!)
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