How to get RAID to see another drive

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Craig

I just got done building my first computer...yippy!!!

I have a RAID 0, and want to pull files off my old hard drives. When I hook
them up using the old ribbon cable, it either hangs up after the BIOS check,
or considers it the MASTER (and boots up with the Windows from my old
drive), even when the jumpers are set to SLAVE.

The new hard drives are S-ATA, and have what looks like (they may be for
something else) a four pin setup for MASTER/SLAVE. When I looked at the
Seagate site, it said it didn't need jumpers, and gave no help. So how can I
get Windows to see it as just "another" hard drive? Also, do I need to
change the name of the old MASTER drive from "C" to something else (It will
still boot up)?

Thanks
Craig
 
Craig said:
I just got done building my first computer...yippy!!!

I have a RAID 0, and want to pull files off my old hard drives. When I hook
them up using the old ribbon cable, it either hangs up after the BIOS check,
or considers it the MASTER (and boots up with the Windows from my old
drive), even when the jumpers are set to SLAVE.

The new hard drives are S-ATA, and have what looks like (they may be for
something else) a four pin setup for MASTER/SLAVE. When I looked at the
Seagate site, it said it didn't need jumpers, and gave no help. So how can I
get Windows to see it as just "another" hard drive? Also, do I need to
change the name of the old MASTER drive from "C" to something else (It will
still boot up)?

Thanks
Craig
Click to expand...

The easiest way to do it is to set the jumper on the old HDD to cable select
and to plug it in where you currently have your CDrom drive. This should
allow you to copy across the data.

If you are booting from the RAID array then check that the BIOS is looking
to Boot from RAID first and the other options are later on in the list.

I am guessing but I don't think you can put IDE HDD on to a SATA cable.

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