How to Slave a Hard Drive?

Answer 1

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The master computer is an Emachines computer model number W3622

The current master hard drive is model number ST380815A5

The computer I am extrating this hard drive from is a Compaq Presario Prod#PW791AA

The soon to be slave drive is model number ST340015A

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I need novice directions on how to add this to my computer starting from scratch. I have the soon to be slave hard drive removed from the Compaq, but I need to know how to put it into the Emachines computer and make it the slave drive.

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Answer 2

check the jumper at the back of the hard disk next to the socket of IDE. i think you should place the tiny jumper in the middle pins to make it a slave. another way is to just remove the jumper. this sometimes doesn't work but i assume it will. on SATA hard disks you just only need to plug in the SATA cable into one of the sockets on the motherboard next to the primary one.

Answer 3

One of the things computer users worry about most when buying a new computer is how to get the information off of their old one. While more recent operating systems come with handy software which claims to do this for you, it will not work on many older operating systems, and is not without its own shortcomings, problems, and pitfalls. There are also methods of transferring data from one computer to another - such as networking, uploading to an online storage area then downloading to the new computer, and even copying all of the data to CD or removable drive and transferring it manually - but these methods are time-consuming and cannot transfer actual programs and registry keys. Slaving a hard drive is probably the most effective method of transferring data from one computer to another, but only works with desktop computers.

Slaving a hard drive is actually easier than it sounds:

1.Locate the 80-wire ribbon cable connected to the hard drive.

2.In newer models, there will be a connection clearly labeled “SLAVE;” in older models, any of the existing connections will suffice.

3.Plug the hard drive into one of these connections.

4.In some cases, you will have to switch the jumper on the drive to be slaved into the SLAVE position; this is not the case with newer hard drives and computers.

5.Plug a four-wire power cable into the new hard drive. The power plug is multicolored and fits only one way.

6.Turn the computer on and browse to the My Computer, Computer, or similar icon. There, you will see a new drive (possibly D:, E:, F:, or something similar): This is your slaved drive, which you can access as you can any other drive, such as your CD-ROM.

Transferring data from an old computer to a new one is not the only reason to slave a hard drive; slaved drives have many uses. They can be used as storage, especially for large files, such as media files; because slaved drives can be accessed like any other drive, programs can be installed on, and run from, them as if they were a CD or the original hard drive; slaved drives can also be used as removable media for sharing data on more than one desktop computer, but they are far more trouble than CDs or actual, removable drives.

Slaving a hard drive is actually pretty easy, though fighting wires makes it a chore, but can only be done on desktop computers.