Bills' Creations - HOW TO Install a 750 GB SATA HD in VISTA

Thanks... Bill

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Generally I set my MASTER as MASTER and SLAVE as SLAVE. You can also set it up to autodetect. When I do set it up as MASTER and SLAVE I pt the MASTER on the end of the ribbon cable and the slave on the other one. That is 0 and 1. I never set CD's or DVD's as MASTERS - but fixes slaves. GOOGLE for info there is a ton of info. Search for HD SWITCH SETTINGS... Good Luck... Bill

I'm actually interested in installing one of my old IDE HDD's into my old computer as a Slave Drive. I know how to connect an IDE HDD, but I am concerned about how to set the jumpers on the HDD to slave. It's a Western Digital 80.0 GB HDD that will be slaved, FYI. Do I have to set jumpers on the slave drive only, or do I have to reset jumpers on the master drive too? If you could help me out or give me a few pointers, it would be greatly appreciated!

Well OEM are the same as RETAIL except they don't have the frills. They are WAY CHEAPER than RETAIL... I guess the NEWEGG caters to OEMs.. Bill

why does newegg only sell OEM drives?

Glad the info helped... I even watched my own video when I added another one. Kinda to refresh my memory where everything is located in VISTA... Bill

TANKS!!!!!!!!! mAN!!!!!!!! it realy helped me alot I was trying to find some help from other forums but it didnt helped....
untill i stumbled on this one!!
THANKS ALOT!! YOUR COOL!!!

Thanks for the nice comments! I recently bought ANOTHER SATA drive and USED MY OWN VIDEO to help me install it!!! HA HA!! I used my own video to help me install another one!!! That is because it is very technical and I needed help in finding the disk routines hidden in the bowels of the VISTA operating system... Glad it was a benefit to you... Bill

Its only been recently that I've delved into the world of SATA HDDs and just an hour ago I bought a new 320 GB HDD. Just installed the HDD and enabled the volume and formatted it using this video for some support. Thanks for the video :D Voted 5-Stars!

GOOD LUCK!!!! Bill

Thanks, good point pulling out the original drive until the new os is installed & happy ;)

I plan to run media center on the new system drive because I own that version.

Now just need the time to do backups and then take it all offline for a while....

BTW - I installed a 2nd SATA drive in my other system and USED MY OWN VIDEO to refresh my memory on the installation process and the location of the DRIVE programs.... SO I EVEN USE MY OWN HOW TO for my own installation! SO THE VIDEO IS RIGHT ON!!! Be Well... Bill

I think you got it right! Make sure that the NEW drive is the only one in the system when you build your system!!! Keep in mind that you can have ANY DRIVE BE DESIGNATED A BOOT DRIVE in Vista. It doesn't have to be in address 0. When I installed my RAPTOR I had it in address 2. ALSO MAKE SURE YOU DO NOT FORMAT THE OLD DRIVE IN ANY WAY as that will wipe out your old data. Just be careful LOAD UP ON BLACK COFFEE and don't make mistakes and it will all work... Be Well... Bill

hey bill,
I bought a 2nd sata drive to install in my system, I want to reload the OS so I want the new drive to become the boot drive and I want to keep the old original sata drive as a data and backup drive - do I just plug the new sata into the motherboard address 0 and move the original drive to address 1 and then reinstall the os?