Master and Slave HDD issues

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Jon Boy

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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
 
First thing to look at with ide drives is where they are located on the ide cable. The drive on the end connector is the master with the slave on the middle one. Sometime however instead of seeing the slave set as slave you have to set the second drive to the cable select postition to see it recognised.

If that method fails and in some more rate occasions setting both to the cable select setting is then needed. But one method for seeing Windows recognise a drive with a different OS on it is to know that ME won't see an XP drive! A fat based OS needs an NTFS for dos tool in order to see and access an NTFS type partition. This is why the ME primary can't see the XP drive. XP can see it however being backward compatible to Fat16 /32.
 
Well cables were all set up fine too forgot to add that. And ahhh your probably right compatibility issues. Hmm I can't stick HDD in my PC as it will void my waranty .... so I guess I will see if I can take it to a friends house and stick it on his PC. Ohh and I dont think the older HDD had a calble select mode thingy bob doo dar.

Cheers

Jon

p.s. what do I press to go into dos or what ever it is at begining?
 
First off, let me ask this, you say you have Millennium and xp on different drives. Are they fresh installs for the system you are running? Or did you pull the drives out of a different system and now you are trying to install the drives in a completely different computer.

If they are from different systems then it will not work. Since they were originally installed on different systems with different motherboards the chipsets are different. You will have to reformat the drives and install the OS's fresh.
 
Jon Boy said:
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 !
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If these drives are on the same IDE cable one needs to be master and one slave, both cant be set to the same 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 !
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Both Changed :) Slave is set to slave master is set to master

And ahh yes, well millenium IS from the computer I have at the moment but yes the XP has been taken from anouther computer. Its anoying though as I got a copy of XP with the computer but no Disc so I can't install it on anouther computer? (have recovery disc I think).

Thanks

Jon
 
You don't have a full version of XP? Without that you may as well as use fdisk or some oither drive tool to clean it off and see a Fat32 partition on it for storing ME files there. First the drive is not formatted for ready access with the ME version being Fat based there.

The second is a now invalid copy of Windows needing removal just as paratwa has already reflected a need for. Even with the jumpers set correctly the drive is useless the way it is since you can't run the copy of Windows on it. To dual boot XP you will now need to buy an OEM for system builders copy of XP Home or Pro to see that done with a brand new copy of Windows there.
 
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