Master and Slave HDD issues

Jon Boy · 09-10-2007, 12:40 AM

Hi, im having trouble running two HDD on an old system I am learning on.

First off I put them both it, and it got all confused and never got passed the bios screen thing.

Then I changed the Jumper on what I wanted to be slave to slave, and it was still confused.

Then I changed Jumper on Master to Master, which now allows me to boot up BUT it does not recognise the other HDD .... Help !

Ok so differences between them are ones an old 10gb HDD with Windows Milenium installed (Master). And the other (Slave) has XP installed but it says its missing a file which is needed in boot up so until I log on I can't stick the file back on there.

The computer does detect the file cos when I start to turn it on it says Master 100040 Mb or something and Slave 80Gb, just it does not show in Explorer.

Thanks if anyone can help

Jon

09-10-2007, 12:40 AM	#1 (permalink)
Jon Boy Platinum Member Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: England Age: 22 Posts: 746	Master and Slave HDD issues Hi, im having trouble running two HDD on an old system I am learning on. First off I put them both it, and it got all confused and never got passed the bios screen thing. Then I changed the Jumper on what I wanted to be slave to slave, and it was still confused. Then I changed Jumper on Master to Master, which now allows me to boot up BUT it does not recognise the other HDD .... Help ! Ok so differences between them are ones an old 10gb HDD with Windows Milenium installed (Master). And the other (Slave) has XP installed but it says its missing a file which is needed in boot up so until I log on I can't stick the file back on there. The computer does detect the file cos when I start to turn it on it says Master 100040 Mb or something and Slave 80Gb, just it does not show in Explorer. Thanks if anyone can help Jon __________________ Intel Core 2 Quad Pro Q6600 95W G0 Stepping Western Digital Caviar 320GB S300 16MB OCZ 4GB DDR2 800MHz DUAL CHANNEL GeForce 8800GTS 320MB "XT" ED OCZ GameXStream 700W PSU ASUS P5K-E/WIFI-AP "3D Mark 03 - 31164" -- "3D Mark 05 - 14127" -- "3D Mark 06 - 10393"

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