How does a slave drive work on your pc? I know you switch jumpers but how do you access it after installed?
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we can access it directly after it is detected by the operating system. It looks like a normal hard drive in the os.
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Depends upon the make and model of the drive.  For example on a newer Western Digital drive, if you look between the IDE ribbom cable and the place where the power is plugged in, you will see three sets of pins.  These are usually marked as CS for Cable Select, SL for SLave drive, and MA for MAster drive.  If the hard drive is on the end position of the ribbon cable, usually no jumper is required.  If it shares a ribbon cable with another drive, then you must select the manner in which the drive is to be used by installing a jumper on the correct pins.   Master for the bootable drive at the end of the cable, Slave for a secondary drive on the internal connection on the cable or Cable select to have its position on the cable automatically select which drive is which.\nIf you still have questions, ask again giving more detail such as hove your drive is being used and what is the make and model.
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Your motherboard may not support this large of a hard drive.  I imagine that it's like 4 heads, 2 platters, 16000 cylinders or something.  Usually, there are three ways around this:  first, look on the drive and see if there's an alternate way that the master/slave jumpers can be set so that it recognizes the drive as a different configuration (it will identify itself as 16 heads, 8 platters, 4000 cylinders, or something like that, that the motherboard can deal with), and maybe your motherboard will read it then.  Second, when your motherboard auto-detects the drive, there are usually a few different choices for its configuration.  Try selecting a different option with the same size (it will do the multiple-head fake-out in the BIOS without any hardware changes).  Third, go on the Internet and see if there are any BIOS upgrades that will make the board work better with large drives.
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hello friend,\nits very simple to connect these\n1.config ur cd room setting to the primary master and connect it to the cable.this cable must be conected to the master connector on mother board \n2.config ur hard drive to the secondary master and connect it to the same cable parrallel with cd drive (cd drive and hard drive will connect to the same cable)\n3.config ur cd burner(cd writer)to primary slave and connect it the 2nd cable wich must be connected to the slave connector on mother board\nafter carefull connections have been made restart ur computer and go the bios setting.\nslect AUTO DETECT or some thing simmilar to it from the manu and accept changes ur computer will save the changes u made and now ur computer is ready for use\nNOTE:if u dont know how to config ur devices u can see a diagram on back of every device it will help u.\nNOTE:u can add one more device like an other hard drive to ur computer by connecting it to the remaining connector of 2nd cable it must be config to secondary slave
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When you look at the existing cable in your PC, your see a tail hanging off the existing drive - this is for the new drive.  Before you install it, go to the back of the new drive and set it to slave - its hard to see but its on the drive.  Connect it up and look for another power supply - you might have to format it but it should work fine.
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Open the case.  Look at the JUMPERS on the first drive.  It is set either to MASTER or CABLE SELECT.    \n\nThen locate the place where the 2nd drive will be installed.  There should be a duplicate cable for it.   If the First drive is set to MASTER, then set the 2nd drive to SLAVE.  If the First drive is set to CABLE SELECT, then set the 2nd drive to CABLE SELECT.   (But use the 2nd position on the ribbon cable). \n\nConnect the ribbon cable and power to the 2nd drive.   \n\nTurn on your computer and watch closely.  You should see TEXT that appears briefly that the secondary drive appears.  Don't worry if you miss that.   \n\nLook for the new drive under My Computer.
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Hard drives have jumpers on them to allow them to be set as master, slave or cable select.  You need to set one to master and one to slave or set them both to cable select. then when they are connected the one at the end of the cable will be the master drive if set to cable select.  Most hard drives have an image on the case to show how the jumpers should be arranged.  If both are set to master or both are set to slave your system will only detect one of the drives.
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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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You didn't state straight out what type of drive you D: drive was, but you were nice enough to say it's FAT 32 which means it must be a hard drive.\n\n1. Power off computer, unplug everything from it. Open the side of the case. Hold on the the case while making sure that your IDE ribbon is connected to your hard drive. Make that the power is connected. Make sure that the jumpers are in the correct position. Your D: drive is most likely a slave. So make sure the jumper is in the slave position. You can find which is by lookin on the hard drive. Most hard drives show you which jumper is for which setting. If it is on slave try putting it on Cable Select (CS) Put everything back together, restart the computer. Check to see if it can r/w to the drive.\n\n2. Try putting the Hard drive on the other IDE controller with your CD drive and see if it is able to work there.\n\n3. Start computer in safe mode, can you r/w to the drive? If so it's related to start up items or your currect drivers. First try reinstalling drivers to see if that fixes it. If that doesn't try disabling your programs that run when the computer starts\n\n4. Check device manager (right click "my computer" left click properties, click on the device manager tab) Make sure that your driver is properly installed. ( you can do this visually. If there is a question mark or exclamation point or red X on your hard drive, reinstall the driver)\n\n5. Check to see if there are updated drivers for your IDE controller. You can find those on the internet.\n\n6. If that doesn't work try putting the hard drive in another computer to test if it works on that computer. If it works, then the problem is solely with your system. \n\n7. You can try to run sfc.exe. click start>run..> type command click ok. at the prompt type "sfc.exe /scannow" make sure to have the Windows 98 SE disk in the CD drive when you do this. This will make sure that your windows system files are in proper working order.\n\nRecommendations: Please consider upgrading your operating system. Windows 98 SE has so many holes in it. Plus it doesn't support NTFS and it's a 16 bit OS. Plus the OS is getting on 10 years old. (Unix/linux users don't care about how old it is, cuz it will always work) Windows OS's have a relatively short shelf life.
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There should be a jumper (a small rect. plastic connector that slides onto a pair of pins) that you move to designate the master drive. Change the jumpers on both drives and set the boot option in your BIOS to boot from the second hard drive first.\n\nDone!
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Check the master and slave jumper settings. Also go into the BIOS and see if it can detect them.
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You should leave your old hard drive in as the master, set your new drive jumpers to the slave position and run both drives.
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Not only is it a separate slave drive or just a partition on the same disk but, have any of the letters for your other drives changed? We kinda need this info in order to be able to give you the PROPER instructions to fix your problem.\n\nHowever, by reading your question, carefully, I'm wondering if your cd drive was being called "D" drive. If it that's the case and it continues not to read cds you put in it, you may have to take your puter into the shop and have the connections on the hardware checked as well as the reader on the cd-rom drive itself.
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if you're talking about adding it as a second drive, it doesn't make a difference that it's DOS. You just need to change ajumper to make it a slave drive. You shoul should be able to get info on this on the website of the Drive manufacturer.\n\nIf you mean as the primary drive, you would need to install a new instance of windows 98 on the drive from a windows 98 cd
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ABSOLUTELY\nI have had a few.\nThe "OLD" reason was in the early days of multiple standards between different brands of manufacturers, when one drive would have jumpers for Master, Stand alone, Slave, Master\nwith non-ATA compliant, Slave with Non-ATA compliant, etc.\njumpers. A user never knew if 2 drives would work together at all, let alone in what order.\n That kind of problem does not occur to often today dince the manufacturers have set basic standards.\n However, even with newer GigaByte drives, I have run into \nproblems with drives that would only work as slaves, no matter WHAT other drive was used.\n I suspect that something shorted the wrong pins out, \nor someone jumpered the pins very wrong, AND had a \ncable plugged in backwards on the motherboard, or had a cable select ribbon cable with problems, and the logic\ncircuitry on the harddrive was damaged by either grounding\nor application of voltage where it was not supposed to \ngo. \n I have not run into the problem very often, but it has happened.\n The Master or Slave option is always available, but few\npeople are aware of the Cable Select, whereby a wire on the\nribbon cable is cut to choose the master or slave. If the loose end of the cut wire is not covered, it can pick up\npower from other contacts at random. \n Cable Select is done so that drives can be swapped without the\ntechnician having piles of documntation to go through\nevery time a harddrive is replaced. If all drives are set\nto CS ( Cable Select), when first purchased, from that time on, any drive fits in any bay on any computer without\nworrying about where the jumpers are set, if CS cables are used on all the computers.\n  Many harddrives had a front set of jumpers as well as\nthe back set, with the front jumpers often duplicating \nthe back ones plus adding LED light output, and other\nfunctions for complex RAID and server applications.\nIf someone did not know what the jumpers were for, they\ncould jump high current LED power into a logic gate\noutput, etc.\n All drives that I have run across that could be only used as a slave were USED, so that I suspect miss-use and damage\nas a cause. But, as a slave, they worked perfectly.\nSince I have many computers and many drives, this has\nnever been a problem...\n\nALSO:\n Since you had problems with this drive and partially recovered its usability with SCANDISK, you may have \n"SIMPLE" problems with the MBR ( Master Boot Record ),\nwhich is the 'first' set of tracks that the harddrive uses to define the harddrive look up tables to the Computer's\nOperating system. You do not state which " windows" version you are using, so that I can only guess an OS , guess a\nsolution. Each different windows operating system has slightly\ndifferent ways of solving the probelm, so I am forced by your lack of information to be vague and a bit unhelpful.\nIn the future, please say which version you are using, and the name of the manufacture of the harddrive, as this would allow people to immediately give you detailed answers...\n\n  After locating the name brand of your harrdive, go to the\nharddrive manufacturer's website, and get the DISK MANAGER,\nor Disk low level format routine, or DISK DIAGNOSTICS, or whatever they offer. These tools 'used' to be really great, although a few big manufacturer's now have a disk diagnostic problem that states ( No Kidding) YOU HAVE  A PROBLEM, and\nthen they re-direct you to the web page to buy another one!!!\n Hopefully you can find a real tool. The best versions, in my opinion, are all run from a floppy boot, since the harddrive cannot really look at itself if the program that\nis "fixing" the drive is running FROM THE HARDDRIVE. A couple of manufacturers now have this option, but I only run it to find the drive and format it IF IT IS NOT THE \nC:, BOOT drive. \n You "appear" to be concerned about retaining the information on your drive. Copy it to a
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More info would help.\n\nIf the computer you're working on is Windows 98 or older, you would need to install the driver before using the Jump Drive.  Any OS version after Windows XP should be plug-n-play.\n\nAnother idea might that the USB port on the computer stopped working.  You may need to uninstall the USB hub and install it again (computer should automatically install after reboot).  Follow the instructions under Remove and reinstall all USB controllers http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=310575\n\nWhat else could be wrong? Faulty jump drive now? Is the computer unable to read the Jump Drive? Make sure it's seated properly.  If there are four USB port on the computer, always use THAT particular USB port always.  For example, there's four USB port on the computer.  You used insert the Jump Drive into port three.  From now on, always use port three.  Not first, second, nor fourth port.\n\nLast but not least, visit the Lexar web site http://lexar.com/
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make sure your jumper settings on the drive are set correctly\n\ngo into your bios setup at boot up time and make sure that the HD is showing \nto get into bios you hit the key that it says to hit in order to get into setup, tap it once a second or hair faster than that til it goes into setup\n\nusually its F1 that gets you into Bios\n\nbut on some bios versions it is the tab key\n\nif those two are good then go to control panel and device manager and make sure the Hd shows up in the list of hardware and that theres no exclamation mark or anything like that next to it\n\nif so then theres a problem, also if it doesnt show up in the hardware list at all\n\nchecking jumper setting is the first thing to check though, \n\n\nif it was my system i would put the new HD on the primary IDE cable and set the jumper to slave setting\n\nand go into Bios setup and set it to boot first if it has your OS on it and if not then make it second or third or fourth boot \n'