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Slave drive recognition issues
Posted: 2005-04-01 07:02pm
by Queeb Salaron
Hey guys. Here's a quickie for ya:
Just installed a new HD, and I'm using it as the main drive now. I wanted to use my old drive as the slave drive, but I can't get Windows to recognize it. Any suggestions?
Posted: 2005-04-01 07:04pm
by The Yosemite Bear
it's having 14th amendment conflicts, and seeking restitution.
Posted: 2005-04-01 07:26pm
by Batman
Setting your old drive to slave while setting your new drive to master would be a good start.
Seriously, would giving us a little more information kill you?
Posted: 2005-04-02 12:13am
by Queeb Salaron
Batman wrote:Setting your old drive to slave while setting your new drive to master would be a good start.
Seriously, would giving us a little more information kill you?
Fair enough.
Had a 40G drive as the primary and only drive. Installed my new Maxtor 10G drive (shut up, I have my reasons), and switched the cable so that the "Main" plug was in the 10G drive, and the "Slave" plug was in the 40G drive. Installed my OS on the 10G drive, booted Windows, and for some reason I can't access files on the 40G drive. Windows doesn't even recognize that it's there.
Posted: 2005-04-02 01:30am
by Edi
Did you also reset the jumpers on the hard drives? It's not enough to just switch the IDE cable positions, you need to set the jumpers on the drives to master and slave respectively for the 10 GB and 40 GB drives. That should solve the problem. Otherwise all kinds of interesting problems tend to crop up.
Another thing that could affect it is the type of IDE connection depending on how old your system is. When I switched operating system from Win98 to WinXP on my current machine (about five years old), I had to switch from using UATA66 to standard IDE because WinXP was unable to find the hard drive on the faster bus (because it was the third IDE bus, not the first).
Hopefully this info should fix your problem.
Edi