NTLDR missing when secondary slave HD present

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When I attach a hard drive as a secondary slave the OS is not detected. Anybody suggestions as to why this occurs? The OS is on 1
partition on C drive (Primary master). A DVDrw is on the Secondary master on D: drive. And I'm trying to put the second hard drive
(jumpered as a slave) with the DVD. So Primary slave is vacant. I tried putting it on the primary slave but its not being detected
properly. Its an 80 gb and it thinks its a 5.9 gb "unallocated".
 
Hi,

First of all, you want the new hard drive as a slave to the old HD. You
never want to have a HD slave to a slower device. This can cause all kinds
of problems and you'll see horrible performance.

These days, you're best to set them all to cable select and make sure your
primary drive is at the terminal end of the cable. Finally, check your BIOS
to verify the boot order. You'll want HD 0 to be your primary boot device.
 
sdlfkj said:
When I attach a hard drive as a secondary slave the OS is not detected.
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Anybody suggestions as to why this occurs? The OS is on 1
partition on C drive (Primary master). A DVDrw is on the Secondary master
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on D: drive. And I'm trying to put the second hard drive
(jumpered as a slave) with the DVD. So Primary slave is vacant. I tried
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putting it on the primary slave but its not being detected
properly. Its an 80 gb and it thinks its a 5.9 gb "unallocated".
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Have a look at the jumpers on the primary master.
Some disk have two jumper positions: One for
"Single Master" and one for "Master, slave present".
 
[email protected] said:
When I attach a hard drive as a secondary slave the OS is not detected. Anybody suggestions as to why this occurs? The OS is on 1
partition on C drive (Primary master). A DVDrw is on the Secondary master on D: drive. And I'm trying to put the second hard drive
(jumpered as a slave) with the DVD. So Primary slave is vacant. I tried putting it on the primary slave but its not being detected
properly. Its an 80 gb and it thinks its a 5.9 gb "unallocated".
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1. Is it formatted already, possibly active? Are they 2 different brands
of drives? Did you try cable select on both HD's when attempting primary
slave? Gotta play with the pins, especially if they are two different
brands.....I've had experiences where WD's did not like Maxtors and vice
verse.

2. Ryan's suggestion is on the money, slave it to your other HD......

3. Chances are though, and if I'm reading this correctly you have 2 DVD
Roms? Usually 2 Roms together may give trouble when doing disk to disk
copying though.......
 
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