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You need a small #1 Phillips screwdriver, a pair of tweezers
to set the jumper and a little confidence and skill.
You need a drive bay, a free power tap and an IDE cable,
preferably an 80 wire cable.
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http://maxtor.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/maxtor.cfg/php/enduser/home.php
full instructions for Maxtor installs
http://support.wdc.com/techinfo/index.asp Western Digital
Just do a little looking, there are videos on the Maxtor
site.
Look on the hard drive and the one in your computer
presently, you have to have them all setup properly, one
slave and one master on each cable or you can use Cable
Select [CS] but you have to be sure which drive is connected
to which connector. Using Master/slave is easier.
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"AliciaN1313" <AliciaN1313@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote
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| I was given a 40gb hard drive that I would like to add to
my pc as a slave drive. Unfortunatelly I an technically
retarded when it comes to something like this. Can anyone
help?
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