How do I get a hard drive to work as slave if they are diferent conections.

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SOSTENES2

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I have a newer Compaq computer and I have issues getting logged on to it. I am trying to set a older hard drive as a master and the one in the computer as a slavse but they have diferent conections.

The old drive that I have has the same conection as my DVD drive (wide flat grey cable plus power cable), my hard drive has 2 black cable 1 is the same power cable as dvd drive, but the comunication one that goes to the mother board is small maybe 1/2". It doesn't have any direction on it as how to set it as a slavs.

The old hard drive does have how to set it as a master, with some jumpers. I set those and I can get the computer to start but it would only start on safe mode and it doesn't recognize the other hard drive.

Does the operating system make a diference.

XP Home edition(SLAVE) is in the one I can not access and Windows ME is in the one I can log on to(MASTER).

pLEASE HELP.

thanks
 
Your new hdd doesen't have the jumpers?

My guess is your gonna have to install your sytem on the new hdd and then put your other drive in as a slave drive and retrieve your files.
 
No jumpers that I can see. And also it doesn't have a drawing on the HD it's self like the other two I have.

When you say install my system on the new Master Hard drive are you talking XP Home edition ?? So that both have the same operating system? And if so how do I get it because the new computers do not have a windows cd. They just have a recovery cd that you have to burn one you start your computer for the first time.
 
Probably right no jumpers so I just need to figure out how to get windows XP on that drive to start the computer.
 
SATA drives dont use jumpers. If you want to set one drive as primary and one to slave, go into the BIOS and manually set which one you want your computer to look at first for an OS.
 
You have to set the XP Home hard drive to boot first in the boot priority in the BIOS. Have you checked the boot settings in the BIOS?

If you have SATA hard drives, you do not need to worry about master/slave settings - they don't apply to SATA hard drives.
 
The problem is that the xp home hard drive is the one I can't log on to.

So can I get the Windows ME to be the master and the XP to be the slave??
 
SOSTENES2 said:
The problem is that the xp home hard drive is the one I can't log on to.

So can I get the Windows ME to be the master and the XP to be the slave??
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Forget master and slave.

Do you know which hard drive XP Home is installed on? If you do, set that hard drive to boot first in the BIOS boot priority.
 
I know which one has the XP. The problem is that I get to the log on screen and it shows loading setting and then it goes to saving setting and it goes back to the log on screen. And the only other option is to shut down or reboot.

I tried safe mode but it gives me a logon error.
 
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