Solution to single Hard Drive hopelessness (Part 2) | |
Part 2: Apply WD40 to all connectors as they can be devilishly difficult to remove otherwise. Remove hard drive connector plugs by holding the plug and wiggling it until it comes loose. Operate the handle on the front of the bay to disconnect the top (80 gigabyte) hard drive which will be the master and turn the key on the front to switch off the power supply to it.......continued Your 80 gigabyte hard drive will always be disconnected (as above) when you are online. You would use it to store backup data and for any offline activities. I find that if I have my top hard drive connected, the one in the lower bay will seize up. When both hard drive bays are connected and switched on your 80 gigabyte one would be master and your present hard drive would be slave. Master / slave settings are determined by the position of the jumpers switch at the rear of the hard drive.
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