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Check the motherboard. You can connect two drives to a single parallel cable. Most traditional motherboards have two IDE sockets and you can run a maximum of four drives. (one cable per socket, two drives per cable) but you need to configure the drives with jumpers as "primary" and "slave".
Many of the newer motherboards have a "SATA" (Serial ATA) socket or some combination of SATA and IDE but you'd have to use a SATA drive with a SATA cable to use the SATA socket.
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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.
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 many hard drives can connect to a single ide cable?
Only two drives can be supported on an IDE cable. One Master and one Slave.
What do you need to connect two hard drive and one CD burner?
You need two cables called IDE cables. Typically these cables have the ability to connect two hard drives or two CD DVD roms. So just find two IDE cables and you can conect what you need to connect.
What piece of hardware do EIDE cables connect to?
Typically EIDE cables connect to IDE Hard-drives and optical drives such as CD and DVD Drives. The cable connects between the motherboard of the computer and the hard-drive or optical drive. Normally most motherboards have two idea buses. You can have to drives per cable. So a total of 4 drives.
How does the Hard Drive connect to the mother board?
Hard Drives connect to the motherboard one of two ways. Either using a 40-wire/40-pin HDD ribbon cable, or an 80-wire/40-pin HDD ribbon cable. HDD stands for Hard Drive Disk.
What method of storing data on two or more hard drives that work together?
method of storing data on two or more hard drives that work together?
What are two examples of storage?
There are many types of storage media, two of them are USBs, or thumb drives, and external hard drives.
Two hard drives are configured as a single volume?
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Two hard drives configured as a single volume?
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Why when installing windows 7 it's getting 200MB space for system partition?
If you have connected more than two hard drives (non-RAID), W7 created a special partition for the system stability. You can trick the system, and disconnect all hard drives except the system one. After you are done installing the system, you can connect the other drives again and not having the 200 mb partition.
How do you use 2 hard disk?
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