Hard Drive Installation

[compdummy]

I have been trying to install a second Hard Drive in my Dell 2350. The computer came with a 60GIG drive. It was connected to the mother board via a singel drive IDE cable. The drive was jumpered as a Cable Select (CS) type drive.

I removed that cable and install a two IDE device cable (non cable select type). I moved the jumper on the 60GIG original drive to the master postion and set the jumper on the new drive as slave. Before I installed the new drive I turned the computer on with just the old 60GIG drive jumpered as a master and the new two IDE device cable.

The computer could not find the 60GIG drive. At turn on the computer started a search using a BOARDcom search utility and found no boot file.

I went to the Dell system setup (F2 on turn up) and the setup knew the drive but I could not get to it via dos or any other way.

Hooking up the new second drive as a slave did not help.

If I moved the drive jumper back to the cable select (CS) postion and disconnected the new drive every thing works as advertised.

So what do I do.

 

[ghost]

Did you have ur master 60gb at the end of the IDE cable and the slave in the middle yer ??
I would buy a new IDE cable and put both the drives on CS.
Also have you formatted the new drive ?

 

[The_Other_One]

I don't know how picky the motherboard is...perhaps you need a cable select cable and to have them both set to cable select? I think I might of had similar problems with an Optiplex GX270 trying to install another slave drive. It did work with the original CS cable, though(it had two ends)