HD Fail

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Hi, first post here.
I’m no computer genius so here goes...
I have an old computer which has a cd rom, a cd-rw, a floppy and one
HD.
I have the cd-rw set as master and the ide cable goes from this cd-rw
to the hd, which is set as slave and then it goes to the mobo.
The other cdrom has the ide cable going from it to the mother board
and it’s set to slave.

When I try to boot it up, it recognises the cr-rw. It then gives the
error messages
Primary master hard disk fail
Primary slave hard drive fail.

It doesn’t mention the other cd rom at all.

Any body point me in the right direction please.

It’s quite an old setup, and just to remind you, I’m quite new to the
insides of a computer. :lol:
 
remove the ribbons from the roms
put the HD on primary(blue connector-closest to the edge-printed on the
circuit board) set to master
Boot
HD is seen by the bios?(in the list on the start- up screen)
 
aikidokid said:
Hi, first post here.
I’m no computer genius so here goes...
I have an old computer which has a cd rom, a cd-rw, a floppy and one
HD.
I have the cd-rw set as master and the ide cable goes from this cd-rw
to the hd, which is set as slave and then it goes to the mobo.
The other cdrom has the ide cable going from it to the mother board
and it’s set to slave.

When I try to boot it up, it recognises the cr-rw. It then gives the
error messages
Primary master hard disk fail
Primary slave hard drive fail.

It doesn’t mention the other cd rom at all.

Any body point me in the right direction please.

It’s quite an old setup, and just to remind you, I’m quite new to the
insides of a computer. :lol:

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Put the CDRW and CD ROM on the same ribbon, one set as master and the other
slave. It matters not which is master and slave, plugged into IDE1 on the
MOBO

Put the Hard Drive on its own ribbon set as Master, plugged into IDE 0 on
the MOBO

the floppy has its own ribbon and plug in port

dj
 
aikidokid said:
Hi, first post here.
I'm no computer genius so here goes...
I have an old computer which has a cd rom, a cd-rw, a floppy
and one HD.
I have the cd-rw set as master and the ide cable goes from
this cd-rw to the hd, which is set as slave and then it goes
to the mobo.
The other cdrom has the ide cable going from it to the mother
board and it's set to slave.

When I try to boot it up, it recognises the cr-rw. It then
gives the error messages
Primary master hard disk fail
Primary slave hard drive fail.

It doesn't mention the other cd rom at all.

Any body point me in the right direction please.

It's quite an old setup, and just to remind you, I'm quite new
to the insides of a computer. :lol:
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Rules of thumb.
The hard drive must be the Master device on the Primary IDE channel.
Cable select is an option only if there are two devices installed on
the
same cable/IDE channel
If an IDE channel/ cable has only one drive attached then the jumper

setting is Master.
Install Slave drives in the middle and Master drives on the end of
IDE
cables.
There are exceptions when sometimes Master in the middle and slave
on the end works better.

See how you go
 
Captin said:
Rules of thumb.
The hard drive must be the Master device on the Primary IDE
channel.
Cable select is an option only if there are two devices
installed on the
same cable/IDE channel
If an IDE channel/ cable has only one drive attached then
the jumper
setting is Master.
Install Slave drives in the middle and Master drives on the
end of IDE
cables.
There are exceptions when sometimes Master in the middle
and slave
on the end works better.

See how you go
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Thanks Captain, I will give this a go, probably tomorrow and let you
know.

Thanks for your reply. :)
 
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