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How to change a external hard drive from primary to slave drive

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Old 10-14-2005, 10:43 AM
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How to change a external hard drive from primary to slave drive

Can anybody tell me how to change my External hard drive from a local hard drive to a slave drive/removable drive.

It is a wester Digital WD800B
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80GB

Thanks for any help
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Old 10-14-2005, 11:18 AM
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external usb drives don't need to be set as master or slave. each usb port and device is independent of other usb devices, so slave/master is irrelevant. USB drives will work regardless of how the jumper is set.
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Old 10-14-2005, 06:16 PM
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I think that I need to change my problem a little.

My external hard drive has been installed as local hard drive and not a removeable hard drive. I need to either uninstall it or change a setting so that it can be a removable drive again so that I can shut it off using the saftely remove hardware function of windows without shutting down my computer.

I don't know how to do this and need any help if possible.

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