first Hard drive is Master and additional will be set to slave.
There are jumpers on the drive itself that can be configured to set it up as a master or a slave. Refer to your hard drive's documentation for the pins to use for these configurations.
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Yes. Just check the jumpers to make sure ones set to master and ones set to slave.
Hard disk jumpers are short conductors that you can use to bypass circuits in a hard drive, or break into the hard drive. They are most commonly used to configure the motherboard when you are not able to boot up the computer.
Primary master and secondary master
First check the hard drive jumpers and be sure it is set to "Master" Second be sure the hard drive is connected/seated properly. Last if an installation disk came with the hard drive insert it into your media drive as hard drives remain un-notice until they are formatted. *you can also use a program such as Norton's Ghost to format the new drive.
If the Hard drive is IDE (40 pins on the back) you would configure the primary hard drive as Master and secondary hard drive as Slave using the jumpers on the back of the hard drive.
In computing, you can have two disks, the main and the slave - these are set by jumpers on the hard drive. In classical hardware, the main would have priority over the slave. However, with better electronics's, most computers don't differentiate between slave and main anymore.
Partition and format the drive. However, if you will be installing an operating system onto this hard drive, the install routine of most modern operating systems will perform the partitioning and formatting automatically.
We generally use the jumpers to set the disk drives as master or slave.
When connecting to IDE drives (whether they be hard disk drives or optical drives) on the same cable, the computer needs to be able to tell them apart. When using a 40 wire IDE cable, you have to identify one drive as Master and the other as Slave. You do this by positioning the jumpers on the end of the drive according to the diagram on the drive itself. When using an 80 wire cable, set the jumpers on both drives to the 'cable select' position and their Master and Slave classifications will be determined by their position on the cable.
Make certain that the jumpers are set properly, that the cables are connected properly (Data and Power) and that the BIOS can identify the drive. Understand that many of the OLDER motherboards have a BIOS that cannot properly deal with larger disks.