ok i jus GOT an old 8 gig hard DRIVE, i wanted to install it onto my COMPUTER, for a lil extra space. First i tried just plugging it in by it selfe, and it always froze when it started loading windows 98. Now it could start in safe mode, but thats it. When i tried using both the hard DRIVES it comes up with an error, asking for a disk, that i dont have. adn in bios it doesnt detect abny hard drive when i have both plugged in, but it detects them if i have one or the other plugged in.

My main hard drive, is a 180 gig
Windows xp Home ed.
128 mb g-force vid
1 gig of ram

any help well appreciated, if you need any more system specs or info jus ask  Have you changed the jumper settings for the slave HDD?And i changed the jumpers, its always something easy. thx for the help.

do i have to have a second operating system on the slave? or can i jus pretty much delete everything? sorry for such a newb question


You only require one Operating System to use both Hard Disk Drives.

Slaves can be used without Operating Systems but they can not be booted from unless you install an Operating System on them.ok thankyou for your help