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Installing multiple hard drives is essentially the same as installing just one. Just slide the drive into the bay and screw it in, and then connect the power and data cables. If you are using older PATA drives, you will also need to make sure, if using the same cable for two drives, that one is jumpered for Master and one is jumpered for Slave. This is not an issue with SATA drives; just plug them in.
Once they are plugged in, you can install an operating system on them. If you are adding a second drive to an already working system, you may need to enter your BIOS and change the boot order so that the original hard drive is still booted from first.
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How do you install Vista Ultimate and Windows XP on a computer with two internal hard drives?
Install Win XP on the first hard drive, then install Vista from Xp and on question about "what kind of installation do you want to have?" Answer "separate" installation. When it asks you "which hard drive are you going to use?" Choose the second one. Vista will create a boot list automatically.
What are two devices in a household that use permanent magnets?
Speakers, and computer hard drives.
I have two sata hard disk drives one with xp home edition and the other one has vista ultimate on can you run two hard drives on one machine?
Yes, you can. If your computer has more sata ports you can use then to connect more hard drives.
How do you connect 3 hard drives on a computer?
Most computers have two internal connections for hard drives. You may also connect a third (external) hard drive via USB.
What are two possible remedies for a disk subsystem that is the bottleneck in a servers performance?
ANSWER Any two of the following: ■ Install faster hard disk drives. ■ Install additional hard disk drives and split your data among them, reducing the I/O burden on each drive. ■ Replace standalone drives with a RAID (redundant array of independent disks) array. ■ Add more disk drives to an existing RAID array.
What are two common forms of auxiliary storage used on apersonal computer?
usb port jump drives and cd's
You want to put multiple hard drives in your computer but you want them to be read as one big hard drive?
There are two ways: Research Disk Striping or RAID.
Why might someone need to install a second hard drive?
Having two optical drives is just another configuration for computers. A user can get a computer with one or two optical drives or more. The optical drives can be of the same type or different. e.g. you can have one BlueRay or HD-DVD drive and another one can be a DVD-RW drive or you can have DVD-RW and DVD-ROM and CD-RW. You can play songs or movies from one drive while you copy something or make a backup of your data in the second drive. Two drives allows you to copy directly from one drive to another if the drive is write capable.
Whats the easiest way to tranfer your old hard drive to youe new one?
On most machines you can install two hard drives simultaneously and just copy the files within the your OS.
Can you change hard drives in a Xbox 360 arcade?
Hard drives are made separate from a computer. They can be removed and replaced. There are two types of hard drives, those that have crashed and those that have not yet crashed. Keep your drive backed up so that when you need your hard drives changed your data will be saved. There is usually a simple way to get your hard drive out and a new one installed. The difficult part is putting your system back on. Keep your instruction manual!
When you put an extra internal hard drive into the desk top will the computer work with both drivers?
If you do it properly, it should. I have two drives in the computer I'm using as I'm typing this.
Why would you need two hard drives?
To increase the physical storage capacity of the computer, or to create redundancy in RAID configurations for data protection.
