Trouble with second Hard Drive

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chewyflex

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Hi, I'm having trouble installing a second hard drive. I am running XP and I currently have an 80 gig HD but would like to add my other 80 gigs... I connected it all inside the case, found out that the IDE cable had to be connected in a certain way so that it would know which was my primary hard drive (I assume this is what happened. I had Windows 98 installed on my old hard drive and when I connected it first, it booted up with 98.) So I switched the placement of my two hard drives so I was able to connect the 2 IDE thingies to my 2 drives. NOW, when I go to boot it, it I have a DISK BOOT FAILURE. I'm probably missing a step somewhere (in the BIOS perhaps?). How do I get this mofo running? Thanks!
-Chewy
 
What are the jumpers set to for each drive (Cable Select, Master, Slave) and did you pay attention to on which part of teh IDE cable each of your drives were plugged into (master connection or slave connection)?
 
TheChef said:
What are the jumpers set to for each drive (Cable Select, Master, Slave) and did you pay attention to on which part of teh IDE cable each of your drives were plugged into (master connection or slave connection)?
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Yes I payed attention to which part of the IDE cable each of my drives were plugged into... I don't understand what you mean by my jumpers being set... Sorry, I'm just learning (/tring to learn) from only a tiny background in computers... Anyway thaaaaaanks!
-Chewyflex
 
TheChef said:
What are the jumpers set to for each drive (Cable Select, Master, Slave) and did you pay attention to on which part of teh IDE cable each of your drives were plugged into (master connection or slave connection)?
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there should be a set of pins outside of the IDE connector, typically 6-8pins, check the harddrive sticker and/or the makers website to check for the posisitions for the jumpers... usually, Master is the first two virtical jumpers (right next to the IDE cable) and slave is no jumper
 
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