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hard drive problem
Name: weird one Date: March 26, 2002 at 07:17:07 Pacific
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i have 2 hd's - one is a seagate 80 gig (partitioned into 3) the other an ibm 20 gig - if i set the 80G to master and the 20G to slave all is ok - but if i set the 20G to master and the 80G to slave, the bios recognises it, windows xp recognises it (in device manager) but not in windows explorer - the 80 gig is the older and slower - i want to use the 20 gig to boot up and the 80 gig for storage so need windows to recognise the 80 gig from the 20 gig - the bios says its there - device manager says its there - but my computer and windows explorer say it isnt - they work no problem the other way round - all jumpers set correctly anyone any ideas?
take the jumper off the 80 gig see whats happens kj computer corrections, cookson, ok
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Response Number 2
Name: weird one Date: March 26, 2002 at 07:31:48 Pacific
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taking the jumper off the 80 gig makes it into a slave -so thanks but tried that already
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Response Number 3
Name: Trying Hard Date: March 26, 2002 at 09:12:49 Pacific
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Try updating the BIOS
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Response Number 4
Name: guru Date: March 26, 2002 at 12:19:46 Pacific
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partition the 80gig into two forties.
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Response Number 5
Name: Siri Date: March 26, 2002 at 15:05:57 Pacific
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Did you swap the master and slave just by changing the jumpers? If so try placing the master at end connector of the IDE cable and the slave in the middle connector.This will specially true if you are using ATA 100 cables/drive. Chech the BIOS for their settings(auto).
siri
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Response Number 6
Name: weird one Date: March 27, 2002 at 11:59:34 Pacific
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bump
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Response Number 7
Name: Siri Date: March 28, 2002 at 07:11:34 Pacific
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Try clearing your CMOS using the jumpers,read the motherboard instructions to clear the CMOS.
Siri
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Response Number 8
Name: Siri Date: March 28, 2002 at 08:32:25 Pacific
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Do both your HDD's have the same file system? If one is NTSF and the other is FAT 32 you can have this problem. Because to my knowlege I do not think the FAT 32 system is able to read the NFTS files but the NTSF system supports FAT and FAT 32 file systems. Feel free to correct me if I am incorrect.
Siri
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Response Number 9
Name: weird one Date: March 30, 2002 at 07:23:41 Pacific
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thanks for all the replies - managed to sort this by installing new IDE ATA 100 cables and running both drives from the same cable - the master is at the end of the cable and the slave in the middle
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