Re: Master & Slave Hard Drive Question

"steve c" <stevecisme@aol.com> wrote:

>I would like to install my old hard drive and transfer
>the data over to my new hard drive. My new computer uses
>XP, the old one Millenium. There is an expansion slot
>for an additional hard drive in my tower. When I hook up
>the old drive, the system doesn't boot. What am I
>forgetting or missing here?

The easiest way of doing this is to install the temporary second hard
drive as the *master* drive on the secondary IDE channel.

With a "normal" PC configuration this is easily accomplished by
unplugging the data cable and power lead from the CD-ROM drive and
using these for the temporary second hard drive.

That avoids all complications with master/slave jumper settings and
also avoids the (relatively rare) situation when two drives just will
not work together in a master/slave configuration. This problem is
most often encountered when the two drives are from different
manufacturers and also were produced several years apart.

Good luck


Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
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