Master & Slave Hard Drive Question

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Andrew E.

Have you switched the jumpers on both hard drives,the
installed hd,needs to be set to master,the old slave.
Go to the mfg. web site and get the info.,however the
pins(jumpers)should have the settings engraved in the
housing,above the pins,move the plastic piece to the
needed setting.
 
Also,
Is your bios set to auto identify the drive type and has it found it
correctly.

Paul Riemerman
 
Thanks, I'll give it a try
-----Original Message-----
Have you switched the jumpers on both hard drives,the
installed hd,needs to be set to master,the old slave.
Go to the mfg. web site and get the info.,however the
pins(jumpers)should have the settings engraved in the
housing,above the pins,move the plastic piece to the
needed setting.
.
 
ve you switched the jumpers on both hard drives,the
installed hd,needs to be set to master,the old slave.
Go to the mfg. web site and get the info.,however the
pins(jumpers)should have the settings engraved in the
housing,above the pins,move the plastic piece to the
needed setting.

Perhaps, more importantly, if you've set the new HD as master and the
old HD (with XP) as slave, have you put any sort of OS on the new HD?
Your system will boot to the primary drive on the primary IDE channel.
You can change this, but personally I've never seen a BIOS that will
let me boot to another HD device on either channel - it's floppy, CD,
or HD (the primary master). That could be your problem here.

New HDs often come with software that allows you to transfer the
contents of the old drive to the new one. It should be on a floppy
(or maybe a CD). Set your BIOS to boot accordingly, restart, and
follow the on-screen prompts. That should accomplish what you are
looking to do.
 
Just a note to NobodyMan. The newer versions of Award
Bios (ver. 2.7 or newer) will allow you to boot from any
drive, master or slave, on either IDE channel. Assuming
they are Hard disks, with some sort of operating system
on them. I still have a second hard drive with Windows
98SE on it that my XP system on the primary drive can't
see because of some glitch. When I need to, I configure
the bios to boot from the slave drive (d), and Windows 98
starts just fine. The bios offers the choice to boot from
drive 0, 1, 2, or 3. And has a feature to boot from an
outside source, such as an external drive attached to a
port.
 
NobodyMan said:
Hey, that's cool. It's about time that this type of thing was
implemented, giving you much better control over your system.

Thanks for the info!

One of my boards has been able to this since 1997 so it is not really that new.

Paul
 
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