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My slave drive is not reconized

Discussion in 'PC Hardware' started by JSB, 2008/01/26.

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    I've got an older computer I'm trying to install XP on. I don't want to loose all my music, and pictures from it, so I tried to connect a slave drive to transfer those files over to the slave. Load XP on the main, and transfer the files back, but for some reason I can not get the slave drive to reconize.

    Currently both drives have Win98se on them. They're both Western Digital drives. Why won't the slave show up. I've got the main drive jumper set at Master w/slave, and the slave jumper as slave. It boots, I just can find the slave. I haven't opened up a PC since I built this one in 99 so I'm real rusty on things. So treat me as a beginner here. Thanks - Jeremy

    Also I just checked the BIOS and it doesn't see the slave either. argh!!!
     
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    JSB - Welcome to the Board :)

    Is the slave drive you have connected known to be working?

    Have you checked the connections - ribbon cable and power lead?

    The master should be at the end of the ribbon cable, the slave on the middle connection.
     
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    Yes I actually connected it as master and booted. It brought up Win98. I fdisked it, and formatted it, and hooked it up a slave again, but nothing. The Bios won't even reconize it. I'm wondering if it's a controller issue. Oh and I have the cables hook up right. The mother board is an Abit ka7 slot. I've been trying to understand this ATA/66 function. Is there something special I need to do when connecting a slave this technology? Sorry for not understanding this more.
     
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    If you remove the current master and hook this 'slave' up jumpered as master does the Bios see it?
     
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    yes it does...and thanks for the welcome. I've been working on the for 5 hours now, and I'm a little crazed at the moment.

    Oh and I've swapped cables too. Same result
     
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    You should have 2x IDE sockets on the mobo, primary and secondary. Put your drive with the OS on ide 1 jumpered as master and the 'slave' drive on ide 2 also jumpered as master and see if the Bios recognises both drives.

    It is close to midnight here - logging off 'til morning.
     
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    the PC pukes. And asks for a boot disk.
     
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    Try using the Western Digital Data Lifeguard 11.2 utilities to partition and format the drive.
    http://support.wdc.com/download/index.asp?swid=1

    If there is still a problem, the drive may have a Dynamic Drive Overlay (DDO), they call it EZ-BIOS. The utilities should have the ability to remove it, otherwise look for the option to Zero (low-level) Format the drive.

    Matt
     
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