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Thread ID: 56025	2005-03-25 04:50:00	positive/negative aspect of making new hardrive...	bigmit37 (7537)	Press F1

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337903	2005-03-25 04:50:00	a slave or secondary... I was just curious as to if there are any benefits or reasons to make a newly installed hardrive a slave or whole new second hardrive..	bigmit37 (7537)
337904	2005-03-25 05:11:00	Not really either primary master or slave. Or secondary master or slave. If there's no cd's or dvd's on the secondary ide connection. Altho I think Master takes precedence over a slave device. I maybe wrong tho. There's no diff between secondary and slave. As there's a secondary slave anyway. Depends what u mean by whole new hdd. You can put an operating system on it, or just install it for backing things up to.	Speedy Gonzales (78)
337905	2005-03-25 18:06:00	Oh Im sorry let me be more clear...Ok well I just got a new hardrive and it is set up as a slave...But I wanted to run games and music off the new hardrive...So I installed my game into that new hardrive and have been able to run it from this new hardrive But what I am confused about is I didnt install windows in this new hardrive, so is it actually using the information from the second hardrive (my new hardrive) and running it on the first hardrive..since my first hardrive has windows installed... My first hardrive is inferior in terms of specs to this new hardrive and I feel that I would get better loading times in games using the new hardrive... So does this mean that I have to install windows on the new hardrive...Because that would be a problem since I have hp 7955 with no windows cd and just that hidden partition...	bigmit37 (7537)
337906	2005-03-25 18:22:00	partition your new drive then ghost the old drive to 'c:' on the new one.......	drcspy (146)
337907	2005-03-25 21:45:00	Thats right, if u do have windows installed on the primary hdd, then you don't have to reinstall windows again on the slave . Since, once Windows loads, it'll know the slave hard drive is connected . (If the slave hdd is jumpered to slave, and the BIOS knows the hard drive exists) . BUT a slave hard drive is really only good for backing up documents / windows updates etc . NOT really for installing games or programs onto it . As some programs / games don't like being installed on any other hard drive BUT the main hdd (C) . Some games/programs when made, were made to run properly off C and nothing else . They have trouble searching for data they need as well .	Speedy Gonzales (78)
337908	2005-03-26 00:17:00	NOT really for installing games or programs onto it . As some programs / games don't like being installed on any other hard drive BUT the main hdd (C) . Some games/programs when made, were made to run properly off C and nothing else . They have trouble searching for data they need as well . Must be really old/poorly coded programs or something . I install every program to other partitions/drives than the C drive and all my programs work well all the time . If the new drive is faster than your current one (more cache, RPM), I would recommend reinstalling your operating system and your programs on it . That should make the whole system a bit faster . Though if you want, you can still get away with installing games/other software on the new one as a slave drive and those programs should still be quite quick .	E|im (87)
337909	2005-03-26 01:07:00	Yer must be. BUT I know, it can happen	Speedy Gonzales (78)
337910	2005-03-28 20:19:00	Must be really old/poorly coded programs or something. I install every program to other partitions/drives than the C drive and all my programs work well all the time. If the new drive is faster than your current one (more cache, RPM), I would recommend reinstalling your operating system and your programs on it. That should make the whole system a bit faster. Though if you want, you can still get away with installing games/other software on the new one as a slave drive and those programs should still be quite quick. OK but the problem I have is that I dont have a windows cd, since I have a hidden partition that reinstalls windows for me automatically....I would def need a windows cd right, to install it on to my new hardrive... Also would I have to open up my computer again and change around the connections since my c: hardrive is connected to the primary outlet (not sure what its called) and new hardrive is connected to the slave outlet..	bigmit37 (7537)
337911	2005-03-28 22:15:00	Also would I have to open up my computer again and change around the connections since my c: hardrive is connected to the primary outlet (not sure what its called) and new hardrive is connected to the slave outlet.. Just to clarify: You should have two IDE cables, each which can take two drives. The first is your Primary. The second is your Secondary. The main drive on your Primary is Primary Master. The second on your Primary is your Primary Slave. The first drive on you Secondary is your Secondary Master. The second drive on your Secondary is your is your Secondary Slave. Your main drive, usually C or with a C partition on it, with your Operating System in C, must be your Primary Master. You can put up to three drives (hard disks or CD/DVD ROM) on the three remaining cable points, in any sort of order, although there are some subtelties regarding which configurations are best. I prefer two hard drives on the Primary cable, and CD/DVD as Secondary Slave.	Greg (193)
337912	2005-03-28 22:31:00	A friend of mine wanted to install a new 80gig HDD in his dad's computer (to install games, the windows HDD was only 20gig) We played around a bit with it, and because of the insane design of the case, and other factors we decided that it would be easier if we left the 20gig where it was but change it to primary slave and have the 80gig as master. On doing so, windows seemed to boot noticeably slower, so because of that we were bothered to swap the HDD's around (not a fun task) Not sure what this proves, as the 80gig was 133, and the 20Gig something like 66, so as far as I can see the 20 gig shouldn't have been brought down any slower when it was a slave. (and even everest said that the speeds were at Max for each HDD) After the swap around, everest however still reported both HDD's to be running at maximum speed, 66 and 133 respectively - with an increase in booting and loading time...	Agent_24 (57)
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