Western Digital.Should be an easy for you folks...

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I have two HD's - both Western Digital Caviar's- one is a WD40 and the other
is a WD20 - both EIDE - both have Win2K loaded on them - the MB is a ASUS
A7V133 - what I want to do is to get them both on my machine and transfer
all of the data from one to the other - currently the WD20 is on my
machine - I just cannot for some stupid reason (operator error) get them to
play nice with each other - I'm pretty much a novice and hardware isn't
exactly my thing so would somebody out there be willing to tell me how it
should go ?
 
I have two HD's - both Western Digital Caviar's- one is a WD40 and
the other is a WD20 - both EIDE - both have Win2K loaded on them -
the MB is a ASUS A7V133 - what I want to do is to get them both on
my machine and transfer all of the data from one to the other -
currently the WD20 is on my machine - I just cannot for some stupid
reason (operator error) get them to play nice with each other - I'm
pretty much a novice and hardware isn't exactly my thing so would
somebody out there be willing to tell me how it should go ?
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You must make one a Master and one a Slave if on same ribbon cable.
The alternative is Cable Select but I have found WD drives are finicky
about their jumper selections. Another way would be to put the other
drive on the secondary IDE port as either a Slave or Master.
 
I have two HD's - both Western Digital Caviar's- one is a WD40 and the other
is a WD20 - both EIDE - both have Win2K loaded on them - the MB is a ASUS
A7V133 - what I want to do is to get them both on my machine and transfer
all of the data from one to the other - currently the WD20 is on my
machine - I just cannot for some stupid reason (operator error) get them to
play nice with each other - I'm pretty much a novice and hardware isn't
exactly my thing so would somebody out there be willing to tell me how it
should go ?
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Why not give Western Digital's own free tools a try?

http://support.wdc.com/download/index.asp?cxml=n&pid=999&swid=23
 
Ric Logg said:
I have two HD's - both Western Digital Caviar's- one is a WD40 and the
other
is a WD20 - both EIDE - both have Win2K loaded on them - the MB is a ASUS
A7V133 - what I want to do is to get them both on my machine and transfer
all of the data from one to the other - currently the WD20 is on my
machine - I just cannot for some stupid reason (operator error) get them
to
play nice with each other - I'm pretty much a novice and hardware isn't
exactly my thing so would somebody out there be willing to tell me how it
should go ?
Click to expand...
Make sure your OS drive (C: ??) is set up as Master (with slave ?.).
Set up the 2nd drive as Slave. That should fix it.
 
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