Hard Drives

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I have installed a new hard drive and it won't work. I still have the original set as master, and the second set at cable select. When I go into My computer there is no icon for the new drive. What do I have to do?
 
Have you got the new hard drive on the seconded connector of your IDE cable?
You have to use the last connector on the first drive and the second drive
uses the connector half way down the cable.

Dose the drive power up when you trun the PC on? Check you power cables.

Can you see the drive in, Administrative Tools, Computer Management, Disk
Management?

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Luca



Matt said:
I have installed a new hard drive and it won't work. I still have the
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original set as master, and the second set at cable select. When I go into
My computer there is no icon for the new drive. What do I have to do?
 
Set the second drive to SLAVE..

Matt said:
I have installed a new hard drive and it won't work. I still have the
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original set as master, and the second set at cable select. When I go into
My computer there is no icon for the new drive. What do I have to do?
 
If both drives are on the same IDE cable, you CANNOT use Master and CS...
you must either have BOTH as CS or one as Master and one as Slave.
 
& if that doesn't work, go into bios setup & set all ide positions to "auto"
& see if that helps. Some at present might be set to "none".
BruceM
 
You also must have the jumper settings correct - with one as MASTER, some
require a different combination of jumpers for it to be MASTER with a SLAVE
on the same IDE cable (depends upon model/manufacturer)

Post the brand and model and if I get back to this one in I will post the
correct settings (you can get the info from the manuf web site)

C


& if that doesn't work, go into bios setup & set all ide positions to "auto"
& see if that helps. Some at present might be set to "none".
BruceM
 
To use cable select you must have both in cable select, the drives on
the appropriate connectors on the cable and a bios that supports it.
Set the first to master with slave (or master if this is the same
setting) and the second to slave.
 
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