i have the 80 conductor cable installed on all my drives why am i  still getting this error message, also when i try to put mutiple cd drives in its only reading my master one no matter how i set the jumpers either on "cs" master or slave
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It's a bad cable. (trust me)\n\nReplace it with another one.
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the jumper pins on the drive you want to be your slave must be set to slave. look at the sticker on the drive. It should have a diagrahm showing standalone/cable select(default), slave, and master. the jumper pin is located beside where the IDE cable plugs into the drive in the back. You shouldn't have to change the pin on your existing drive, we are going to use the cable select feature. Now, disconnect the IDE cable from your existing drive if it doesn't have two 30 pin connections. If it does, you can use that cable, otherwise use the new IDE cable that came with the new drive. (you'll have to dissconect the old IDE from the motherboard if using new cable)Now hook your existing drive to the 30 pin connector in the middle of the cable, and piggy back your slave to the 30 pin connector at the end of the cable....that's it, turn it on. Operating system doesn't matter. The board BIOS should auto detect the new drive. If not, go into the BIOS setup screen and set primary slave to auto detect. (enter bios setup by hitting either DEL or ESC right at startup) let me know if it works! P.S. pay attention to the red stripe on the cable, and what side it is on going into the motherboard and your existing drive, if you try to hook it up backwards, you may bend the pins, and then your screwed.
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Why not just go to a Electronics Store and just buy a new hard drive. It doesnt matter if its new or old, the wire that connects them does.
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jumpers configured wrong, bad drive, or a bad cable. Recent install?  look in device manager for any conflicts
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have the jumpers on the drive been set correctly? (secondary master, cable select, slave)
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You are probably using IDE...Piece of cake!\n\nPurchase a new HD (if not already), shut off the computer and unplug power. Remove static electricity and open up the case. Pull out the existing hard drive and set it to either Master of Cable Select (your computer should support CS). Now set the new HD to Slave or Cable Select if the Master drive is on CS, and hook it up to the open IDE plug on the same cable that is attached to your primary HD. Install the drive and plug in the power connector. NOTE: if you buy a hard drive larger than 137 gigs you will need to run specific software to enable large disk support...but 80 gigs is easy.\nNow turn your computer on and format the drive either in Disk Management or through My Computer!! Piece of cake!
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Ok this will depend on a couple of things, how many CD or DVD drives do you have??\n\nIDE support  4 devices in Total \nChannel 0 - Master\nChannel 0 - Slave\nChannel 1 - Master\nChannel 1 - Slave\n\nIf you have Serial ATA, then you can support 2 more drives\n\n(These can also be RAID 0 or RAID 1)\n\nSo you can have 2 IDE Masters (1 on each channel) and 2 IDE slaves ( 1 on each channel)\n\nThe OS will take care of naming them, if you have 4 devices then they will become (normally) C: D: E: F:, any card readers will follow on G: H: etc, and Network drives will count down from Z: Y: etc.
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There's something wrong with your hard disk. If you can capture all the writing that comes up after the error, that would help, but in general, this is something you will not be able to diagnose and fix over the Internet. You will probably get a recommendation from someone to format the C drive and reinstall Windows-- don't do that yet because you'll lose all your data, and it might be too drastic a step. But it definitely sounds like the disk itself is the issue and you'll need to take the computer to be repaired.\n\nBasically chkdsk is a system tool that checks the integrity of the disk. If it keeps croaking on 79 then that's where your problem is. It could be logical--- the operating system has lost track of how to count and identify the files--- or it could be physical--- a bad sector (storage area) on the disk. \n\nIf you can make the error come up again and copy down the first 2 lines then post them here (or PM them to me) we can see if we can get some better insight.  The important lines are the ones beginning with "STOP"  and probably says something like IRQL_LESS_OR_EQUAL or like that.
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pull both drives. first to the new drive. on the end where the cables go you should have an area with some pens like this\n:::: and one should have a shunt{which ties two pens toghther} on it. look on the top of the drive and you should see a diagram of this. they should say something like this cs for cable select ma for master sl for slave.  now move the shunt to slave position. on the other drive do the same except set it to master or master with slave present. put them back in with the old drive at the end of the cable and the new {slave} in the middle ...turn it on see if it don't work right now!
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I think you didn't set the jumper of hard disk. make sure one disk is master and other one is slave.
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Sounds like a BIOS issue.  \n\nAs your computer is starting up, get into the BIOS config (F1, F10, or esc).  There, you can define the master, the slave, etc.
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how many have you made?  Most drives will eventually wear out and stop working.  Maybe your drive isn't working anymore, or maybe its not connected right, or maybe you just need to reinstall the drivers.
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Check in BIOS setup if your 1st hard drive is Primary/secondary Master then just remove the Jumper(u can see a black color cap on back side of hard drive where data cable and power cable are connected) and connect the hard dirve.Make sure u connect Data and power cable properly.
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I assume you have the IDE controller enabled in BIOS?\nDid you set the jumpers on the drives? If you did make sure you have the master connected to the end of the cable and the slave connected to the middle (slave) connector.
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you have to disconnet both drives and reconnect the drive you want to keep as drive C. this may also require some jumper rearrangement. then, take the old C and set it up as the new E. again, check the jumpers. then, you can do whatever you want to the old C.
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WELL, IF YOU KNOW ENOUGH TO INSTALL A DRIVE THEN YOU SHOULD KNOW ENOUGH TO FOLLOW THESES INSTRUCTIONS. FIRST CHECK THE CABLES. THIS YOU HAVE ALREADY DONE. BUT THERE COULD STILL BE PROBLEMS HERE. MAKE SURE THE IDE CABLE IS PLUGGED ALL THE WAY IN, AND SEATED FIRMLY.  THE POWER CABLE IS IN OR YOU WOULDN'T GET ACTION ON THE CD LIGHT. BUT ANOTHER IMPORTANT STEP HERE IS TO CHECK THE JUMPER SETTING ON THE DRIVE. IT NEEDS TO BE SET TO EITHER "MASTER"-IF IT'S THE ONLY DRIVE ON THE IDE CABLE. OR "SLAVE" IF THERE ARE 2 DRIVES ON THE ONE IDE CABLE. BUT HERE AGAIN IT IS IMPORTANT TO CHECK THAT IF THE DRIVE IS A SLAVE, IT HAS TO BE PLUGGED IN TO THE PLUG ON THE IDE CABLE THAT IS BETWEEN THE TWO ENDS. THIS IS THE "SLAVE" PHYSICAL POSITION ON THE IDE CABLE. IF IT IS ON THE END OF THE CABLE AND SET TO SLAVE YOU WILL HAVE PROBLEMS. NOW, THE OTHER POSITION FOR THE JUMPER IS "CS" OR "CSEL" OR "CABLE SELECT". THEY ALL MEAN THE SAME THING, CABLE SELECT. WHAT THIS DOES IS ALLOWS THE COMPUTER TO SEE THE DRIVES AND DEPENDING ON WHERE THE DRIVE IS PLUGGED IN ON THE IDE CABLE, IT WILL AUTOMATICALLY KNOW WHICH IS MASTER AND WHICH IS SLAVE. BUT BOTH DRIVES HAVE TO HAVE THEIR JUMPERS SET TO CSEL IN ORDER FOR IT TO DO THIS. IF THIS DOESN'T FIX THE PROBLEM, GO ON TO THE NEXT STEP--- GO INTO THE DEVICE MANAGER OF WINDOWS. TO GET THERE CLICK: START:CONTROL PANEL: SYSTEM: HARDWARE(TAB): DEVICE MANAGER. IN THE DEVICE MANAGER CLICK THE "+" NEXT TO DVD/CD-ROM DRIVES. THIS WILL REVEAL ALL THE OPTICAL DRIVES YOUR COMPUTER RECOGNIZES. IF THE NEW DRIVE IS NOT LISTED HERE, YOUR COMPUTER ISN'T SEEING IT. SO NOW YOU HAVE TO GO BACK TO CONTROL PANEL, AND CLICK "ADD NEW HARDWARE". LET WINDOWS SEARCH FOR THE NEW DRIVE. IF IT FINDS IT THEN LET IT INSTALL IT. IF IT DOESN'T THEN YOU'LL HAVE TO GO INTO YOUR BIOS. TO DO THIS, RESTART YOUR COMPUTER AND DURING THE START-UP IT WILL EITHER GIVE YOU A SPLASH LOGO OF THE MANUFACTURER OR IT WILL GIVE A BIOS SCREEN. THE BIOS SCREEN AND POSSIBLY THE SPLASH SCREEN SHOULD SAY SOMETHING LIKE " F2 FOR SET-UP" OR "DEL>SETUP". WHATEVER BUTTON YOU NEED TO PUSH TO ENTER SET-UP. THIS IS SOMETIMES CALLED THE BIOS BY PEOPLE LIKE ME. ANYWAY, IF IT DOESN'T GIVE YOU AN OPTION, AND JUST A LOGO APPEARS SUCH AS COMPAQ, HP, OR GATEWAY, THEN YOU NEED TO PRESS THE ESC KEY OR TAB KEY DURING STARTUP TO GET IT TO SHOW YOU THE BIOS SCREEN AND THERE IT WILL TELL YOU WHICH KEY TO PRESS TO GET INTO SETUP. ON SOME COMPAQ MODELS YOU HAVE TO PRESS THE ESC KEY 3 TIMES REALLY FAST AND THEN PRESS F10. BUT EACH MANUFACTURER WILL USUALLY BE DIFFERENT. DEL IS THE MOST COMMON BUTTON, THAT IS THE DELETE KEY. ONCE YOU GET INTO THE BIOS MENU THE FIRST PAGE SHOULD ALLOW YOU TO LOOK AT YOUR DRIVE CONFIGURATION. AND/ OR AUTO-DETECT YOUR DRIVES. SELECT THE DRIVE  (IF BIOS SEES IT) AND LET THE BIOS AUTO-DETECT IT. IF YOU DON'T EVEN SEE YOUR DRIVE, THEN IT IS A PROBLEM WITH THE PHYSICAL CONNECTION. EITHER THE POWER PLUG THAT POWERS THE DRIVE IS DEFECTIVE OUT OF YOUR POWER SUPPLY UNIT(PSU) AND THE OTHERS WORK(RARE, BUT NOT IMPOSSIBLE) OR THE IDE CABLE ITSELF IS DEFECTIVE IN THE PORTION BEING USED FOR THE DRIVE, OR FINALLY THE DRIVE ITSELF IS DEFECTIVE. ONE LAST THING , YOU CAN ONLY HAVE 4 DEVICES CONNECTED TO THE IDE'S. ALSO IF YOUR LOOKING AT THE DEVICE MANAGER AND THE DRIVE SHOWS UP, BUT HAS AN EXCLAMATION POINT BY IT, THAT MEANS THERE MAY BE A CONFLICT WITH ANOTHER DEVICE USING THE SAME IRQ(INTERRUPT REQUEST). IF IT'S A QUESTION MARK THAT MEANS THE DRIVER ISN'T INSTALLED. JUST RELOAD THE DRIVER FROM THE CD THAT CAME WITH THE DRIVE, OR GO TO THE MANUFACTURERS WEB SITE AND DOWNLOAD IT. IF YOU NEED ANYMORE HELP JUST EMAIL ME, BECAUSE I'M IN IRAQ RIGHT NOW. joe_mccn@yahoo.com. ALSO YOU SAY THE DRIVE WAS WORKING AND WAS RECOGNIZED BY YOUR COMPUTER AND THEN QUIT WORKING. ONE THING I FOUND MAKES A COMPUTER DO THAT KIND OF FUNNY STUFF, IS D
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So,u want to use 2HDD and a optical drive...u need two IDE cables for it unless the additional HDD is not using IDE(but SATA). Before u pplug in the HDD to the IDE cable,u need to decide wether the HDD is to be master or slave.master pin is at the end of the cable and make sure also the pin at the HDD itself configured to master.This is same if you want to make it slave.