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Resolved Setting up a 2nd SATA slave drive

Discussion in 'PC Hardware' started by brimis, 2011/02/10.

  1. 2011/02/10
    brimis

    brimis Well-Known Member Thread Starter

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    A friend just dropped of his Dell Demension E521 desktop. The 250 GB hard drive is bad. I had a Maxtor 250 GB Sata in the basement that I installed and loaded XP.
    I would like to attempt to set the bad drive up as a slave and try to extract his data. My qustion is, are the Sata drives like the old ATA drive where you must set a master and slave using the jumper pins?
    Thank you,
    Brimis
     
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    PeteC

    PeteC SuperGeek Staff

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    Generally speaking SATA drives have no setting for Master/Slave - just connect it to a SATA port and it should be seen.
     
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    Ski52

    Ski52 Inactive

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    Set your boot order in the BIOS, otherwise it will pick the first bootable drive it sees, not necessarily SATA1 either.
     
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    brimis

    brimis Well-Known Member Thread Starter

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    Thanks guys, pretty easy, just had to get my feet wet with Sata!
     
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