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irbigbird

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I don't understand jumpers at all. Is there a simple explanation for jumpers. I need to know what the jumpers should be on my harddrive. I changed them to match another computers harddrive and when it didnt work in that computer I put it back in its original computer but time has passed and I dont know how the jumpers were set for the original computer it was in.
Thanks for your help.
novice
 
are you using one HDD or several? If your just using one, and it is the only drive on the chain, it should be set to master.
 
irbigbird said:
I don't understand jumpers at all. Is there a simple explanation for jumpers. I need to know what the jumpers should be on my harddrive. I changed them to match another computers harddrive and when it didnt work in that computer I put it back in its original computer but time has passed and I dont know how the jumpers were set for the original computer it was in.
Thanks for your help.
novice
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Master - To be the main drive.
Slave - To be the secondary drive.
Cable Select - Let the cable decide what is Master/Slave.

There is Primary and Secondary controllers. Secondary is mainly used for optical drives (CD and DVD Drives) while Primary usually holds the hard drives.
 
Hi, it is the only hard drive but it has more then one jumper. I think it has 3, at least 2. So I will set it to master but what is the other jumper for?
I notice sometimes the jumpers are on 2 pins and other times only on one, its very confusing.
Thank you for your help!
 
hahaha, that makes sense, thank you for that. Got any suggestions on what else would keep it from powering on? Doesnt sound like the jumper setting would keep it from powering on most of the time.
 
irbigbird said:
hahaha, that makes sense, thank you for that. Got any suggestions on what else would keep it from powering on? Doesnt sound like the jumper setting would keep it from powering on most of the time.
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A jumper will not keep anything from power on. Check your other thread.

Remember that SATA doesn't have any jumpers ;)
 
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