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To add a second hard drive to your computer here's what to do. On the back of the drive you will see a set of pins simular to the pic below:

(MA) This stands for Master and (SL) this stands for slave and finally (CL)this stands for cable select, for the time being please ignore the cable select, we are only interested in the master and slave options.

The following procedure explains how to add the two drives to the same controller socket on the motherboard.

Okay, now you know what to look for on the back of your hard drives, check the drive you already have in your computer and make sure the two pins for master are connected with a jumper. Then look at the new / second drive and make sure that the two pins are connected as the slave. Before adding the drive to the computer case make sure that the ribbon cable will reach both drives, add the second drive to the computer and screw it to the case then connect the ribbon cable and the power cable.

Now close the case and start the computer, when the computer starts the memory check, press the DEL key to access the BIOS. Once into the BIOS go into the standard settings and set the hard drive options to auto, exit and save the BIOS and while the computer restarts, watch to see if the new drive is recognized, if it is you are now ready to partition it otherwise you have done something wrong like plugged the ribbon cable in the wrong way round or the power cable is not connected properly or there is simply something wrong with the drive.

To make this easier for all Windows 95/98/NT and 2k operating systems I suggest you use a boot disk then put the boot disk in the computer and turn it on or restart it.

When the computer reaches the A:/> type fdisk and press enter you will then be asked if you want to create a partition larger than 512mb type 'y' for yes and press enter.

When the menu appears choose option 4 "display disk partition" to find out which is the new drive then press escape to return to the main menu. Choose option 5 "change current disk" this selects the new disk for you to work on then choose to partition it as you would like for example as one drive or as several drives.

Once you have done this press escape to exit fdisk and restart the computer, once restarted you can then format the drive with the command format d: or e: whatever the drive letter is of your new drive. Please be careful not to format your c: drive as you will lose all of your data. And that's it,