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Installing slave HD
Name: bug Date: October 22, 2006 at 08:10:54 Pacific OS: Win98 build 4.10.1998 Gol CPU/Ram: IntelPentII 350 Mhz/128 M Product: Gateway
Comment:
I need to know if uplugging the IDE cable to my master HD to install a slave HD will have any effect on the master.
Name: ham30 Date: October 22, 2006 at 09:13:10 Pacific
Reply:
Nope, you can safely do that. Just make sure the connectors are reinserted the correct way. It won't do any harm if you put them in wrong, but obviously they won't work.
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Response Number 2
Name: OtheHill Date: October 22, 2006 at 11:17:49 Pacific
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Be sure the computer is shutdown and disconnected from the wall socket.
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Response Number 3
Name: Tubesandwires Date: October 22, 2006 at 14:58:11 Pacific
Reply:
I agree with response 1 and 2. On an old computer like yours if you have only 1 drive connected on an IDE cable it must be jumpered as master
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Response Number 4
Name: bug Date: October 23, 2006 at 08:31:30 Pacific
Reply:
Thanks for your responses. That was easy .
bug
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Response Number 5
Name: Jennifer SUMN Date: October 25, 2006 at 05:32:19 Pacific
Reply:
Well, if you unplug the cable, the drive won't be detected and your OS won't load. Unless of course, you reconnect the cable. You don't need to disconnect anything to add a slave drive, but I'd go with Secondary Master for the slave as opposed to Primary Slave.
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