What
Does Slave or Secondary Hard Drive Mean?
Generally, people are able to apply not
only one internal hard disk on a single PC at one time. And the main hard disk,
which often holds PC operating system, essential software and programs, is
often called "Master drive", while the rest of the installed internal
hard disks are often called "Slave drive". Moreover, in daily uses,
if you do have used only two internal hard drives on a computer, the slave drive
is also able to be called "the Secondary drive". Therefore, in such
cases, no matter which name you prefers to adopt, they both do indicate the
extra hard disk installed on your computer.
Some
Common Issues about Secondary/Slave Hard Disk
In daily use, adding or using a secondary
or slave hard disk on your PC is also not an easy task. Want to know why?
People often meet different problems related to the installed secondary or
slave drive. Really want to know more and learn to fix some common issues about
such added secondary or slave hard disk on your own? OK! Here are some common
related issues that you can read and learn how to fix:
Situation1:
Slave Drive
Is Not Detected on Your PC?
"Hello,
my newly installed internal hard disk even cannot be recognized on my PC. What
am I supposed to do? Honestly, I recently have purchased a new external hard
disk and add it to my PC for saving data. However, after plunging it to my
computer, I just cannot find it anywhere. Do you have any idea about this?"
Hello, friend! Are you sure this added new
internal hard disk is really compatible with your computer? Honestly, in most
cases, such undetected secondary or slave hard disk problems occur to people
because of incorrect hard disk connections, damaged computer motherboard or
incompatible hard disk issues, etc.
Hence, to remove this secondary/slave hard
disk issue, you are supposed to check this hard disk step by step:
Step1. Reconnect this secondary hard disk with another USB cable, power
supply or another motherboard connection port.
When you got faulty or loose connection,
your computer often will detect no extra drive and shows it nowhere. Hence, it
is necessary to check the connection state with your ways.
Step2. Disconnect this hard disk and go try it on another PC to see
whether it has some problems, especially some physical damages.
In daily use, even when you do have bought
your hard disk for a really short time, your hard disk also is able to be fake
or corrupted and cannot be recognized well on your PC.
Step3. Go check whether this hard disk is really compatible with your PC.
The PC often can easily detect and read the
compatible hard disk. However, as with the incompatible one, there is often no functional
response. Therefore, go check the details of this newly bought hard disk and
see whether it is workable under your computer Windows environment.
Situation2:
Computer Cannot Be Boot up after Adding a Slave Drive?
"Hello,
recently, in order to extend the memory of my Windows 7 desktop computer, I
have added a 500GB WD internal hard disk to the motherboard and found the
computer just cannot properly boot up after adding the slave drive well. Have I
done something wrong while adding the secondary hard disk? I really don’t know
much about this. Do you have any idea to fix this drive problem?"
OK! Friends! Many people have ever
encountered similar computer booting issues after plugging a slave or secondary
hard disk since they do have not correspondingly changed the first boot device
in BIOS interface. Therefore, in your case, you are also supposed to check and
reset your BIOS boot order step by step:
Step1. Power up your PC and press Del button as
soon as possible
Step2. Highlight Advanced BIOS
Features option when you come to BIOS
Setup Utilities interface.
Step3. Move the internal hard disk that holds OS of your PC to the first
line on the device list.
Step4. Reboot your PC to try again.
Generally, as long as you reset the BIOS
boot sequence rightly, you often can boot your PC as usual. Hence, go check
your BIOS boot order immediately.
Situation3:
How to Wipe/Remove Secondary Hard Disk?
"I
really don’t want to apply the added secondary hard disk on my PC any longer
since it is damaged somehow due to long time use. So, I just wonder what I
should do to remove this hard disk without extra troubles. Do you have any
idea?"
Hello, it is really easy to remove this
secondary or salve hard disk off from your PC. What you are supposed to do is
only extract everything important to the backup drives and turn off your PC
safely. And then, safely remove this hard disk off from your computer motherboards.
Moreover, one more thing, if this hard disk
is set as the boot device, also remember to change the BIOS boot sequence as
the first situation writes.
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