My old Slimline 7700 died. I have the old hard drive out (Samsung SP2504C) and want to install it as

[MrSteve]

a slave in my new Slimline Pavilian s5370t. There is a jumper setting on the old drive but no jumper connector. What do I need to do to install the old in the new? Keeping in mind the old system is Vista 32 and the new is Windows7 64.

Kind regards,

Steve

[CherylG]

I'm not sure what you mean by jumper connector. If you mean the SATA connector, there are 4 SATA ports on your motherboard to plug in another hdd using the cable from old machine. The document HERE shows motherboard layout with location of SATA ports.

If I were doing this, I would simply install the old hdd in a USB Enclosure and plug it into usb port of new machine. It can be accessed just like an internal hdd, files copied/used and can even be formatted using disk management in Windows.

[MrSteve]

Thanks CherylG! The diagram on the old HD shows where a jumper should be on the pins if it's being used as a slave. I'm sensing that the jumper may not be necessary in this case? The reason I'm asking is because I have no jumper to connect these two pins together (if that's what has to happen) and I don't know where to get a jumper.

Kind regards,

Steve  

[CherylG · Accepted solution]

SATA hdds usually only utilize the jumper to restrict speed from 3 down to 1.5 if your motherboard doesn't support it and auto-configure speed. You should be fine without it.

[MrSteve]

Ok, it's making sense now. I'll finish it over the weekend. Thank you so much.

Steve