Im trying to transfer some data from my old Western Digital 30G hard drive to my new Maxtor 80G SATA drive. When i hook up the old drive in my new comp, as a Primary Slave, i cannot get i to boot from my Maxtor, and it actually dosent even recognize my Maxtor drive at all. If any one has any insite on this issue it would be appretiated. Thanks
jlusignan1
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Jump to Postand it actually dosent even recognize my Maxtor drive at all
make sure you double check the ribbon
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brianmann
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be sure the settings on the Maxtor are set to Master. If it is usually a single drive in the system, then it does not need to be set up. When you added the old drive as a Primary slave, the Maxtor needs to be set to master. Good luck
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and it actually dosent even recognize my Maxtor drive at all
make sure you double check the ribbon
feigned
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You'll need the SATA drivers for your chipset for the OS to recognize that the drive is even there.
This will depend on your motherboard, or less likely, an add-on PCI card.
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