HDD in secondary IDE?

[renegade X]

I have never tried this. I was going to go buy an IDE card, but I figured maybe I can just put a HDD in the secondary IDE channel. Will it work or should I do it?

 

[crjdriver]

Yes, you can put a hd on ide2.

What do you have on ide1?

Will this be your boot drive?

 

[renegade X]

Nah, long story, I need to reformat my C drive, because my floppy doesn't work (to get me to DOS). I convert a FAT 32 to NTFS and I cant go to Last Known COnfig, or safe mode. I have always wondered about the extra HDD, so this is nice. Thanks for the speedy reply. Mods can close.

 

[Wolfeymole]

Hold on here a minute Renegade, it may well be that you have a boatload of problems already never mind adding a new drive.
Why can't you get into Safe Mode or last known etc

Wolfey

 

[renegade X]

It seems weird, I know but I am thinking that the format may have been FAT or FAT16. Not sure why it did that. I should work fine in a sec.

 

[crjdriver]

If you are running xp or win2k, just boot with the CD. You can enter the recovery console and partition / format any drive.

Generally if you have two ide drives, they would be put on ide1 as master / slave. IDE2 would be used for optical [CD type] of drives. You can however connect a hd to ide2.

 

[renegade X]

Done. Thanks for all the input. I now have three HDD installed. And I have a fresh installation on my new primary partiton.