Putting a sata in as a slave

KaHn

KaHn

KaHn

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Hi all,

Ok i have a bit of a problem, when my computer died it was still under warrenty so it went away and came back with a new OS on the new hard drive i put in there as I didnt want them to wipe my other one.

So now I have a 2nd SATA HD which has its own OS on, can i just put it in and delete the OS or run it as a slave?

KaHn
 
Yes. I've done it many times before to fix other people's windows installs. Just make sure you don't set it as the boot up drive and it should be detected in windows where you can do what you wish with it.
 
Ok cheers mate, do i just set it as slave in bios?

As it used to be done with jumpers on ide drives.

Bit new to this sata stuff :)

KaHn
 
SATA drives don't need to be set as master/slave. If there are any jumpers on the back of the drive then it will be to do with enabling/disabling other features of the drive and not for setting slave drives.

SATA is plug and play, it's as easy as that. You may run into some problems with SATA drivers as windows doesn't natively support some SATA chipsets. I had to install SATA drivers on my old Gigabyte XP-SLi and my current DFi Ultra D. If there are two different SATA controllers on your motherboard (some boards have two) and you run into problems with one of them, then try using the other one and see if that works.
 
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