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dear experts
my harddrive is reading as the primary slave and i wish it to be primary master but after going into cmos/bios and seeing that its on auto-detect, i believe that it should detect it as primary master. the CD drive is set as secondry master for some reason
would this be the reason that i cant set the HDD as primary master? just to let you know i have a maxtor 40GB hdd and i took the jumnper cable off to see if that would make a change and it didnt at all. would having the CDRW as the secondry master maybe stopping me from setting the drive as primary master please help as i wish to set up a second HDD as slave and its not seeing it at all.
confused
Your message got me lost at the end. Did you setup your hard drive as a master by changing the pins?
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Your HD is very likely jumpered wrong. You'll have to take the HDD out, and look at the diagram on the label of the drive showing where to put the jumper to make it the Master. There are 3 positions, Master, CS (Cable select) and slave.
One quick note, you said you wanted to add another HDD as a slave.
Be aware that on some HDD's, there are 2 possible setings for jumpers, one being for Master if there's no slave, and one being Master if there IS a slave. Not all though, the drive diagram will tell you.Good Luck
raincheck
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thanx folks
i tried the drive as master setting on the jumpers(as per diagram on label),still no luck,then i tried this
HDD1=master
HDD2=slave
then
HDD1=CS(master/slave)
HDD2=slave
then
HDD1=CS
HDD2=CS
then
HDD1=master
HDD2=no jumnper
then
HDD1=master
HDD2=CS
and still no luck.just to let you know that the HDD2 has win2000pro on it that im try to format and install xp pro on it,and it will boot if i unplug HDD1 and transfer the IDE cable over to HDD2.(originally the HDD2 was the O/S on the computer!!
please help
confused(realy)
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Make sure that the harddrive is on the end connector (black) and not on the middle connector (gray).
Hope this helps,
Sandman
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thanx mate
the HDD1 is on the end(black connector) and when i connect the the HDD2 its on the grey inthe middle
confused(boo hoo)
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Are you sure you are plugging the hard drives into the correct IDE? PRIMARY IDE? Go step by step. Unplug all the drives and make sure the jumpers are setup right for hard drive 1 as master. Get ribbon cable that is connected to PRIMARY IDE slot. Connect hard drive 1 to ide connector at the end of the ribbon cable (not middle connector). Go to CMOS and set hard drive 1 to autodetect. Does it recognizes the drive as master?
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Main HDD, Set to Master in IDE slot 1 on board, Add Slave HDD, set to Slave.
Main CD/DVD drive set to Master in IDE slot 2 on board, Again add Slave CD drive, set to Slave.
IDE Slot 1 is Primary, IDE Slot 2 is Secondary
Hope this helpsTalent does what it can;
Genius does what it must!
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Wouldn't recommend setting up slave hard drive on primary ide with along with the master hard drive. It is better to set it in Secondary IDE as primary or slave for performance reasons.
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do you know what folks
this might just work for
a change i will try it and let you all know later my post will be known as "confused HDD" thanx all for the help you have been great
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Just a minor correction. It is not necessary to put the Master on the end connector if you plug the drives Master and Slave. It only has to be on the end connector if you use cable select.
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