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Adding slave drive to XP PRO
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Assuming you are slaving it to another hard drive on the primary IDE connection (and you are using an 80 pin IDE cable), should be straightforward. Set the jumper on the new drive to slave. Check the master drive's jumper settings (some have different settings for sole master and slave present), and adjust if necessary (you can also set both to cable select - make sure existing drive is on end connector if you do this. Mount the drive in the case and connect the spare connector on the IDE cable to it (if there isn't one - some have single connector - go and buy one with 2 connectors), and connect power. Boot the machine, and make sure bios is set to detect Primary slave device. Drive should now appear on POST screen - and XP should detect it when it boots (you may be asked to reboot to make it available for use). If it needs partitioning/formatting, use Disk Management (run diskmgmt.msc. Note - if you use fat32, XP can only create 32GB fat32 partition max. If you want bigger than that, use fdisk or third party software like Partition Magic). If already formatted fat32 or NTFS, XP should just assign it a drive letter.
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