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new harddrive install problems..

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sk33

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I'm trying to install a new hard drive to add on to my current one.

I am very new at things like this, and when I just opened the box to give it a try - I couldn't find a power cable for it.

There's the power connector that looks just like what I have going to my DVD/CDRW combo, but instead of just being loose like the other one was - this one is connected to what appears to be the fan. Note that I don't think this fan is working..

What do I do?

Do I disconnect the one going to the front fan?
Can I just not have 2 harddrives on this system?
Am I a complete tard and is there a really simple solution?
 
Ok, on a hard drive you should have 2 cables going into it. One will be a power cable (which will come from your power supply), and the other is an IDE cable, which should be included with your HDD. The IDE cable is probably a flat cable with a lot of little wires, which will be connected to your motherboard. If you have another hard drive already connected, you will probably need to use a double IDE cable and hook one hard drive up as master, the other as slave. (look in the install guide for that).


The power cable will come from your power supply, you most likely have an extra one in there, it will be Red, Yellow, Black wires just like the ones that are already connected to your DVD drive and the original hard drive. It won't come in the box.

hope this helps.
 
Yep, what stumpy said, but if you really don't have any more power leads, you can get a Y-adaptor at your local RadioShack which will allow you to use one power plug for the fan and the HD.

Hopefully This Helps!
 
you have a hard drive, and your adding one, this isnt hard but isnt realy simpl if you havent dont it b4

as stated the ribon cable coming from your mother board to your hard drive should have a place to plug the hard drive in (between the current drive and the mobo) if not your going to need another cable that has on jack for the mobo, and two jacks for hard drives

then you have the power, coming out of your power suply with two black, a red and a yellow wire, if you dont have any extra, then you have two optioins , getting a bigger better powersuply or going to ratshack and droping $5 on a ysplitter, to make on power jack into two.

now your going to have two hard drives on the cannle (the one cable) so you have to tell the hard drives where they are... there sould be jumpers on the back of the hard drive, (a bunch of pins, with one plastic clip that goes over two pins) moving the jumper tells the hard drive where it is and how to function, you want the last hard drive on the chanle (fruthest from the motherboard) to be the master so move the jumper to where the hard drive tells you (you may have to look this up online) and you want the 2nd drive (the new one, that will be between the old one and the mother board) to be set to slave (again it may be writen on the hard drive or you may have to look it up, thay may not be the same as the other hard drive)

then power up your pc, look for the drive (if its not in my computer check in device manager to see if its instald if not instal it, and if you still dont see it right click my computer, manage, disk management, and it should show there, you may have to import it, or format it depending on what your doing, if its a new hard drive, out of the box you will have to format it.

good luck hope this helped
 
got the y splitter and it's all installed now. thanks guys :)
 
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