How to install drivers on a slave hard drive

 · My hard drive crashed and Dell Tech came to install a new one. I had a Samsung Gb SATA drive and they replaced it with a Western Digital. I would like to install the old one as a slave drive so that I can access all my files, pics etc.. I have the drive inserted but Estimated Reading Time: 2 mins.  · 5. Attach the bay converter to your hard drive after eyeballing the bay converter, hard drive, and drive cage can all fit together can all fit together so that the hard drive will sit towards the back of the drive cage just like the disc drive did. 6. Attach the bay converter (which now has a hard drive attached) to the drive cage. www.doorway.ruted Reading Time: 6 mins.  · With the hard drive selected, press the "Configure" or "Change" key (usually ↵ Enter) as listed in the key legend that's at the bottom or side of the screen. You should see "Master" pop up next to the hard drive's name. In some cases, you may have to select None to the right of the hard drive's name before pressing the "Configure" www.doorway.ruted Reading Time: 6 mins.

My hard drive crashed and Dell Tech came to install a new one. I had a Samsung Gb SATA drive and they replaced it with a Western Digital. I would like to install the old one as a slave drive so that I can access all my files, pics etc.. I have the drive inserted but find no power source available to plug into it. Plug the available grey or white connector on the cable into the pin socket on the rear of the slave drive. 5 Find an available 4-pin Molex power connector attached to the power supply unit. Step 9: Ok so now we have the hard drive free from the computer, we need to set it to be a slave in the computer you are moving it to. If you take a look at the back of the hard drive there will be a set of pins usually located between the power and hard drive cables. Now here is the tricky part.

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