Hi
I'd like to add a second 40gig Western Digital IDE drive to my PC (Windows XP SP3). I already have a 40gig HDD as the system drive and would like to slave the WD drive.
The WD HDD is from an old Pentium 2 and it has Windows XP installed so I need to format it but not sure if I can do this
from Windows.
I connected the second drive to the system drive and set the jumpers accordingly and started Windows. Once it had loaded
the WD HDD was recognized but then the PC just shut down.
Would I need to format the slave drive from the BIOS before it can be used?
Any help appreciated.
I'd like to add a second 40gig Western Digital IDE drive to my PC (Windows XP SP3). I already have a 40gig HDD as the system drive and would like to slave the WD drive.
The WD HDD is from an old Pentium 2 and it has Windows XP installed so I need to format it but not sure if I can do this
from Windows.
I connected the second drive to the system drive and set the jumpers accordingly and started Windows. Once it had loaded
the WD HDD was recognized but then the PC just shut down.
Would I need to format the slave drive from the BIOS before it can be used?
Any help appreciated.