Setting the Hard Disk Drive Jumpers
You need to check or change the hard disk drive jumper settings if you are installing or removing any hard disk drives. The jumpers tell the computer whether you are using one hard disk drive or two.
Note
You do not need to set these jumpers if you are removing your only hard disk drive.
If you remove one hard disk drive and leave another in your computer, you need to change the jumper settings on the remaining drive to indicate that you now have only one hard disk drive installed.
If you are installing your first hard disk drive and it is the only one you are going to install, see “Changing the Jumper Settings” on the next page to check the jumpers on your drive.
If you’ll be using two hard disk drives, see “Setting the Jumpers for Two Hard Disk Drives,” below.
Setting the Jumpers for Two Hard Disk DrivesIf you install two hard disk drives in your system, you must change the jumper settings on each drive to indicate which drive is the “master” drive and which is the “slave” drive.
A master drive is the drive on which you’ll install the operating system that the computer loads into its memory each time you turn it on. You can run application programs and store data on both the master drive and the slave drive, but the operating system must be contained on the master drive.
Follow the instructions in the next section to change the jumper settings on both of your hard disk drives.