Primary Master and Slave

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My BIOS and my Device Manager both show both my hard
drives but my Windows Explore only shows my Master C:\.
I have jumper settings on both hard drives to "Cable
Seclect" I tried to switch it to "Master" and "Slave"
but that didn't help any. I just got a new computer and
the Master came with the computer but I wanted to add the
Slave from my old comp. The old comp had Windows XP and
so does this one but it doesn't work with this comp. The
only thing that I can think of is that the HD isn't
compatably with the Motherboard. Is that possible if it
still shows up in the BIOS and Device Manager. Note: All
Primary devices are set to automatic. Does anyone know
an answer?
 
Did you partition and format the second drive ??

Windows will not recognize the drive until it is partitioned.

If you did you can always try using the second ide port for the drive
 
It is already partitioned because it has personal
information on it and that is why I wanted to keep the
drive. What do you mean by "using the second ide port
for the drive?"
 
You will need to set the drive as slave and set the drive in the new machine
as master (it might be running as "only" which with WD drives is different
than "master")
 
I set the primary to master and the secondary to slave as
I said before and it still doesn't do anything. I have
tried every combination of jumper settings you can think
of and nothing works. One thing that I did notic though
is when it boots the P.O.S.T says S.M.A.R.T IDE Detection
= Disabled. Does that mean anything and how would I
enable it. I have a GA-7VT600 1394 Motherboard with a
AMD 2800 and the drive that isn't working is a Quantum
Fireballlct15 20...is there an update that I would be
missing?
 
Tim what I meant was that their are two different IDE ports on the
motherboard. Typically a harddrive will be connected to the first and CDROM
or DVD to the second. Try installing the harddrive on the second (make sure
jumpers are set properly).

SMART IDE dectection = Disabled is the way most have it and would have no
impact.
 
Well I found the solution. It wasn't what I thought. I
went to the partitions and the primary master was ntfs
which is what it was supposed to be. The primary slave
had no file system. I thought this was odd because all I
did was move it from one case to the other. So I put the
old HD in the old case backed everything on cds and put
it back in the new case and repartioned the drive and it
reads perfectly. I spend hours playing with jumpers for
no reason. Thanks for the help guys

Tim
 
Well I found the solution. It wasn't what I thought. I
went to the partitions and the primary master was ntfs
which is what it was supposed to be. The primary slave
had no file system. I thought this was odd because all I
did was move it from one case to the other. So I put the
old HD in the old case backed everything on cds and put
it back in the new case and repartioned the drive and it
reads perfectly. I spend hours playing with jumpers for
no reason. Thanks for the help guys

Tim
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I don't know what the problem was with the old drive in the new case,
but I assure you it DID have a file system on it. It you put it back
in it's old case, then burned the files you needed from it on CD
before wiping/partitioning/reformatting it...well, those files
couldn't have been accessible if the drive didn't have a file system
on it.
 
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