How to Install an IDE Hard Drive

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Hi! I’m James Adams and I’m here on behalf of expertvillage.com. Now we’re going to talk about IDE hard drives. Now the first connector is called a master because it’s the first one on the cable and the second one is called a slave, a slave connector. Now, when we look at a hard drive we need to set this tiny pin according to what it’ll be on the cable. Let’s say you want to replace your window hard drive. This one is the master connector as the top of the cable. You want to take this tiny pin and connect it on the master spot on your hard drive. If you just want extra storage to add on to your windows hard drive, you’ll connect it to the slave connector. Then this pin will go on the slave spot reserved on this hard drive. Okay so now we need to know where to connect this cable into the motherboard. When you look at the board you’ll notice this; you have a short little connector right here. This one is for floppy, which we will not be using. Then we have this green one and the white one. These two are meant for CD ROMs and hard drives, but now you need to figure out where the cable would go. In my case, we’re going to take the hard drive and replace a windows one. Let’s pretend my hard drive is absolutely crapped out. So what you need to do is you look at the area around the connectors and you’re going to find a writing. In this case it’s right here and it says FDT for floppy drive. There’s IDE1 and right there you can barely see it; it says IDE2. What that means is always on the IDE1 master connector is where the windows hard drive will go. So if your windows hard drive died, you need to replace it. You need to make sure it’s always on this IDE1 master connector. You can put the hard drives on IDE2 as master and slave but they will work as storage. Remember we looked at the cable and we said that the when you look at from the top, you got connectors that are really close together designated for hard drives and then you have one that is far away that is designated for the motherboard. We take this connector that is far away and just like the hard drive you’ll notice there’s a notch. It’s keyed so there’s no way to put it on backwards. We take the connector on the cable, plug it on the board IDE1 and you’re done.

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