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Name: matt
Date: July 17, 2002 at 07:33:06 Pacific
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I moved my old computer's hard drive to a new computer. The new computer currently has a hard drive (w/ OS), CD-ROM, and CD-RW (C:, D:, and E:). Bios detects the second hard drive just fine, but windows ME doesn't show the second hard drive. IDE setup consists of first drive (IDE-0, master), CD-RW (IDE-0, slave), second hard drive (IDE-1, master), and CD-ROM (IDE-1, slave). Jumpers are set accordingly. Any suggestions?



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Name: Burbble
Date: July 17, 2002 at 09:05:48 Pacific
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Name: matt
Date: July 17, 2002 at 09:18:16 Pacific
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It's a 10gig. Does it matter were the hd is connected to the IDE system (other than it can't be IDE-0, master) in order for Windows to recognize it? Also, the drive is out of my old computer (Windows 95 w/98 upgrade) and the only reason I attached it to the new is to get info off of it. At that point, I can throw it away and forget about it.


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Response Number 3
Name: Jennifer
Date: July 17, 2002 at 11:54:17 Pacific
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What are the file systems of the two drives?


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Response Number 4
Name: matt
Date: July 17, 2002 at 12:19:13 Pacific
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Windows ME on the new.
Windows 95, upgraded to Windows 98 on the old.
(If that was your question. Sorry, I'm limited in computer knowledge)


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Response Number 5
Name: Burbble
Date: July 17, 2002 at 12:46:34 Pacific
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File system is FAT16, FAT32, etc.

It's not a connection problem if the BIOS recognizes both hard drives as the masters and the CD drives as the slaves.

If you use a boot disk and go into DOS, and type FDISK, is the drive listed there?

-Burbble


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Response Number 6
Name: Lorrin
Date: July 17, 2002 at 14:52:10 Pacific
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Play with the jumper settings. Yesterday I had to change the jumper on the first drive in order to add a second. Sometime the jumpers need to be set wrong in order for the OS to pick them up. Setting the jumper to an incorrect setting won't fry your HD or anything, so try a few different settings. Also to be picked up as a slave of your master drive it needs to be plugged into the second plug on the same IDE cable as the master. More?'s email me.


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Response Number 7
Name: Burbble
Date: July 17, 2002 at 20:25:47 Pacific
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If you set two primary masters, two secondary masters, etc. then the drives will not be detected. Make sure that there is one primary master, one primary slave, one secondary master, and one secondary slave. (If you have four drives connected) Don't set the jumpers to Cable Select; set them to Slave or Master, depending on which you want.

The location on the IDE cable doesn't matter; I have my DVD drive set as the slave, connected to the end plug of the IDE cable, and a hard drive as the master, connected to the middle plug.

I recommend always setting the hard drive to master if it is on the same cable as a CD, DVD, or similar drive.

-Burbble


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