How do i use a wd2000js caviar as a second drive

Bo jumper settings needed. Just install the drive and the computer will assign a drive letter to it

SATA drives don't need jumpers. Just install the drive and the computer will assign a drive letter.

Jumper Setting Information

Well, if this hard drive is SATA and looks like this:

Then you don't need to worry about the jumpers at all, the hard drive is ready for use in your PC.


However, if it's IDE, which looks like this:


You will need to move the pins to the "Slave" setting, and on Western Digital drives it is one set of vertical pins going away from the 4 pin power input, the above picture is set for Slave mode, and can be used as a reference.

Slave - Installing the new drive as the secondary drive:
If installing your new Western Digital hard drive as the secondary drive on the cable with
two IDE devices, move the jumper shunt on the drive to pins 3 and 4. If necessary,
configure the jumper on the other IDE device as Master.

look closely at the back of the hard drive, in small print it should say where to put the jumpers to make it a slave

The BIOS is AMI. Under ADVANCED SETUP:
The options listed for 1st,2nd ,3rd Boot device include:

IDE-0 means Pri master ?
IDE-1 means Pri slave ?
IDE-2 means Sec master ?
IDE-3 means Sec slave ?

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single or master :::::

master with slave ::'::

slave :::':

note the plastic jumper is ' located at the rear of the hard drive next to the IDE/SATA lead/s

hope this helps

you can find the jumper settings printed on the top of western digital caviar hard drives
slave setting with the hard drive end jumpers facing you is 2nd from the right or 4th from the right
good luck

I do what seeting you looking for? slave master here is thier web page for the information.
http://wdc.com/wdsearch/search.aspx?sq=wd%2080%20hard%20drive&sl=en-US&sc=

Hi,

The jumpers on the Seagate must be set to slave.

otherwise they are conflicting for the Active partion and bootloader.

Regards
Richard.