You have to change the cables on the motherboard.
You have the hard drives connected to the secondary IDE port.
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Ron Sommer
:i have a asus 7n8x-x board. i reinstalled wxp and flashed the bios
: 1010-x.went into setup and found the primary master is now the cdrw.the
slave
: is my cdrom.the secondary master is the "c" drive and the secondary slave
is
: my "d" drive. i can't figure out how to change them correctly. ralph
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: ralph loudin
:
:
: "Malke" wrote:
:
: > ralph m loudin wrote:
: >
: > > how to re-arrange hard drive (primary master-slave locations and
: > > secondary) help!
: >
: > With IDE drives, you move a tiny jumper on the drive. You can have
Master,
: > Slave, or Cable Select. Cable Select means that the position on the
ribbon
: > cable determines Master or Slave with the Master being at the end of the
: > cable and the Slave being on the connector closest to the motherboard.
: >
: > To determine jumpering for your specific drives, look on the drives
: > themselves. Often there is a picture. If there is no picture or it is
: > unclear to you, go to the drive mftr.'s website for your specific model
: > hard drive. They will have jumper settings there.
: >
: > With SATA drives there is no Master/Slave. Each drive has its own SATA
: > cable.
: >
: > If you need more information, you'll have to provide more details than
one
: > sentence about what you are trying to do.
: >
: > Malke
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