Andy, Is your CD-ROM connected to IDE0 or IDE1? (Is it on the same ribbon cable as your HD?)
Do you have an open bay (either a 5.25" or 3.5") in which to put your new HD? If you have to remove your CD-ROM, i.e., don't have an open bay or the CD-ROM is connected as a slave on the same IDE connector as your existing HD, in order to install a 2nd HD, you will need to REM out all the lines in AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS that deal with the CD-ROM. Is there any particular reason that you don't want to have two HD's in your computer? You would have to modify your CMOS to reflect that: 1: You no longer have a CD-ROM if you have to remove it, and, 2. You have two HD's and to include the parameters of the second drive. You can get the parameters of drives either from the label on the drive, from the drive manufacturer's web site, or, for an *old* HD (which a 525 MB HD would be), or from tables in Scott Mueller's "Upgrading and Repairing PCs." Some drives, e.g., Western Digital, require that there be *no* jumper installed if the drive is an "only" drive. If you have two drives on the same ribbon cable, one *has* to be jumpered as the Master, and the other *has* to be jumpered as the Slave. HTH Roger Turk Tucson, Arizona Andy wrote: . > I have my 4x CD-ROM attached to my IDE cable as D: . > I *don't* want to add a slave drive permanently... . > can I temporarily disconnect the CD-ROM to setup such a *temporary* slave . > drive (for copying from C: before setup as a new master HD) ? . > if i set the jumpers as slave, disconnect the cd-rom and plug in the . > upgrade HD to where the cd-rom was... do I have to worry about what . > happens to the temp. un-used cd-rom drivers in boot-up?(I'm assuming a . > slave drive doesn't need drivers even though, like the cd-rom, it's . > not/wouldn't be in the CMOS Setup . > please advise...
