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Originally posted by may73alliance
say i went and bought an 80gb hard drive... connected it all up.... what else would i have to do? would i have to change the bios or something? i've been thinkin about this for a while...

a new harddrive is a bit costly just to install the sims though, lol

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plug it all in
set main drive jumper to master
set new drive jumper to slave
boot up

that should be it, the hard drive should be auto recognised bu the computer so i dont think you need any BIOS changing

Well if you get a new internal hard drive, you first need to connect it and then follow the instrucions of your motherbord manual how to install a hdd in bios settings (it is different to every motherbord) You also need to format it after you installed it which is also described in the manual of the hard drive.

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Originally posted by Lee Jeffery
set main drive jumper to master
set new drive jumper to slave

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Or, if you've got a cable with different colour plugs, *opens side of PC to check, finds all conenctors are black*, OK, let's reword this.

Imagine this is your cable:


Edit: Changed to piccy

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Originally posted by raceprouk

quote:

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Originally posted by Lee Jeffery
set main drive jumper to master
set new drive jumper to slave

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Or, if you've got a cable with different colour plugs, *opens side of PC to check, finds all conenctors are black*, OK, let's reword this.

Imagine this is your cable:


Edit: Changed to piccy

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i take it the picture is ment to be an IDE connector? my IDE wires do have 3 plugs.. 1 motherboard one hdd and one spare..

if thats what you mean

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Originally posted by may73alliance
say i went and bought an 80gb hard drive... connected it all up.... what else would i have to do? would i have to change the bios or something? i've been thinkin about this for a while...

a new harddrive is a bit costly just to install the sims though, lol

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the bios should recognize it plug and play and it should be listed in my computer.

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Originally posted by may73alliance

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Originally posted by raceprouk

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Originally posted by Lee Jeffery
set main drive jumper to master
set new drive jumper to slave

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Or, if you've got a cable with different colour plugs, *opens side of PC to check, finds all conenctors are black*, OK, let's reword this.

Imagine this is your cable:


Edit: Changed to piccy

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i take it the picture is ment to be an IDE connector? my IDE wires do have 3 plugs.. 1 motherboard one hdd and one spare..

if thats what you mean

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Yes, that's an IDE cable. And the different spacings are representative of the spacings on the cable itself.