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matthewshepherd
So for the longest time, I've had this weird thing going on with my
hard drives.
The first drive that came with my computer was a Seagate Barracuda
7200.7. It's been great.
About six months ago, I picked up another hard drive, a Maxtor
Diamondmax 16.
The two drives hate each other.
Seriously. If the Barracuda is on Master and the Maxtor on Slave, I get
an NTFS (or something, I should have written it down) not found error
immediately upon turning the computer on. I don't even get as far as
the BIOS prompts.
If I put them both on Cable Select, the same thing happens. I finally
wound up slaving the Maxtor off my DVD-RW, and that sort of worked.
Well, it flat-out worked. I kept an old 20GB hard drive and slaved it
off the Seagate. That worked too.
But now with a computer running off a rowing machine downstairs, I
wanted that old 20G drive (Western Digital, just to make sure I'm
hitting all the bases) down there to stick MP3s on. So it's no longer
slaved off the original Seagate drive.
And I wanted to use that free IDE spot to run a DVD-ROM I have but am
not using.
Unfortunately, the IDE cable that goes to my DVD-RW is the only one
that could also reach the DVD-ROM, but it is needed to slave the
Maxtor.
Or rather it was. Now that there's no slave on the Seagate, the Maxtor
can't be used ANYWHERE on either IDE cable or the system won't get past
the first stages of startup.
The computer is working right now because I've unplugged the Maxtor
drive entirely. To make things slightly more annoying, since the
Maxtor's Slave jumper setting is no jumper, I've managed to lose the
freakin' jumper pin at some point along the way.
I can't figure out why the Maxtor and Seagate won't get along. Does
anybody in the forum have any ideas on how to resolve this?
hard drives.
The first drive that came with my computer was a Seagate Barracuda
7200.7. It's been great.
About six months ago, I picked up another hard drive, a Maxtor
Diamondmax 16.
The two drives hate each other.
Seriously. If the Barracuda is on Master and the Maxtor on Slave, I get
an NTFS (or something, I should have written it down) not found error
immediately upon turning the computer on. I don't even get as far as
the BIOS prompts.
If I put them both on Cable Select, the same thing happens. I finally
wound up slaving the Maxtor off my DVD-RW, and that sort of worked.
Well, it flat-out worked. I kept an old 20GB hard drive and slaved it
off the Seagate. That worked too.
But now with a computer running off a rowing machine downstairs, I
wanted that old 20G drive (Western Digital, just to make sure I'm
hitting all the bases) down there to stick MP3s on. So it's no longer
slaved off the original Seagate drive.
And I wanted to use that free IDE spot to run a DVD-ROM I have but am
not using.
Unfortunately, the IDE cable that goes to my DVD-RW is the only one
that could also reach the DVD-ROM, but it is needed to slave the
Maxtor.
Or rather it was. Now that there's no slave on the Seagate, the Maxtor
can't be used ANYWHERE on either IDE cable or the system won't get past
the first stages of startup.
The computer is working right now because I've unplugged the Maxtor
drive entirely. To make things slightly more annoying, since the
Maxtor's Slave jumper setting is no jumper, I've managed to lose the
freakin' jumper pin at some point along the way.
I can't figure out why the Maxtor and Seagate won't get along. Does
anybody in the forum have any ideas on how to resolve this?