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How do I assign a drive letter to a slave hard drive in Windows XP?
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∙ 12y ago
windows should automaticly recognize your slave drive and run it as the next available letter drive for example i have a 2tb hard drive partitioned to c, d, and e. i then have my DVD drive named f. with the remaining unallocated space (not formated to a recognizable state) i partitioned to g,h,i,j and my 500gb harddrive comes up as my k drive.
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How do you uninstall Windows XP from a slave drive?
i never tryed that but you could backup everything u need from your slave to an other disk then reformat the hardrive witch would delete everything on it including windows.
How do you install Windows 98 on to a slave drive hard disk D in a 2 hard disk system that already has Windows XP. I want to install Windows 98 on to the slave drive D .?
if u have winxp on the master hd, just boot ur computer from a 98boot disk and install win98 on the slave. the computer should automatically configure itself for dual boot.
Can you del Windows 7 and reinsall Windows Vista or Windows XP?
Yes, you can delete windows 7 by formatting your drive, but all of your files will be gone. If you have two hard drives, you can either copy your data from one drive to the other or put xp/vista on the second one and use the windows 7 drive as a slave.
What does a slave drive do?
On the older style ATA drives, now called PATA or simply IDE, each drive chain had two positions for drives. One was called the Master, and the other the Slave drive. The drives performed in exactly the same manner, and the only difference most people would notice was that the Master drive was given a drive letter before the slave drive. In short, a Slave drive does everything a Master drive does.
Do you need extra software to drive a slave monitor from a laptop?
No. Windows 98 and later include the ability to use multiple displays by default.
What are some problems with the primary slave drive?
What are some problems with the primary slave drive?
Can you take a master hard drive with windows installed on it and put it in another PC as the master?
Yes, but make sure first that you have the Windows' CD for 98 or XP or whatever on hand, so if/when it asks for it you can put it in ( it does not have to be OEM - a good burnt copy works.) If you can't, you will have to use it as a slave drive.
What are the slave hard drive?
If you add an additional HD to your computer, the second drive becomes the slave drive because the computer must boot from the Master drive
What does it mean if a hard drive has a slave drive configurations?
This question may be old but if you still don't know. Slave basically means like a second drive. One that doesn't need an os and is just put in your pc as secondary storage. Your primary or master hdd is the one you boot or post from and has windows installed. This is just the basics there is a little more to it.
If a hard drive has slave-drive configuration it is probably?
The second drive.....
What is a slave optical drive?
Well an optical drive is a cd/dvd disk drive. Slave means it is in the secondary position on an IDE cable. So a slave optical drive is a cd/dvd drive positioned secondary to a different device on a singular IDE cable.
What does C drive indicates?
The default annotation C: typically refers to the primary hard drive or primary partition of a hard drive from which the operating system is booted. The reason it is typically the C: letter drive is that, back in the day, a 3.5" disk drive was annotated as A: by default and the 5" or floppy drive was annotated as B: by default. The drive letter D: is usually utilized to indicate the default annotation of the primary optical (cd-rom or dvd-rom) drive of the computer. Due to the creation of hard drive partitions, (or devisions of a hard drive to create virtually separate drives) it is possible for one hard drive to have multiple drive letters typically ascending in letter from E: (Drive C: Primary Hard Drive Drive D: Primary Optical drive. Drives E:, F:, G:, etc secondary hard drives which are also known as slave drives.) Windows is capable of customizing the drive letter annotations to suit the user, (including the primary drive annotation of C:) which is why this is not universal for all computers. However, for Windows, the primary hard drive from which the operating system is booted is always annotated as C: by default. If the drive letter has been changed in the operating system only, a menu will typically pop up on boot up on at least one occasion asking for the drive letter of the hard drive on which the operating system is loaded. (Unless the motherboard settings are changed, the motherboard will automatically try to boot the operating system from drive C:)
