I am having trouble installing a second hard drive as a slave. They are IDE, originally there were two hard drives, however i have purchased a new hard drive to replace the old slave hard drive. I set the new hard drive jumper setting to slave, however when i do this no hard drive is deteced at bios, not even the original one. when i try the new hard drive as the master hard drive, still nothing is detected. the older hard drives had 8 pins (or 9 pins im not sure there is one to the side by itself) in the jumper block. Where as the new one has 10. Reading another thread on this site it said that there is no compatibility problem, so how can i fix this? Thanks.
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Jump to Postthe name of the hdd involved would have been nice.
anyway ,the new drive is brand new i assume ,has it been formated ,did it come with hdd utilities disk to help you set it up.
Jump to Postyeah i do believe it needs to be formatted ,but you also have problem starting computer with it installed ,try installing it a master on the secondary ide channel ,were the cdrom is , i will post a link to software utility for the drive ,what OS is install on …
Jump to Posti have windows xp proffesional
which of them utilities do i require.
the recommended one is the windows version ,it will run from the winxp you have if you can get the computer too boot with both drives installed / if you can't just hook the drive as master on …
Jump to Posti did the boot cd of it and when i went to setup the harddrive it couldnt find any hard drives to setup
without seeing you have the jumper's right there isn't much i can say except maybe you got a bad hdd!
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