when we have two hard disks how does a comp differentiate them(as master and slave)?
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This is a wild guess, but I think that at the first startup it chooses one to be a primary and one to be a secondary.
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To see what the slave pin position is you should look at the diagram on the back of the hard-disk, if it usses abbreviations they are: SL = slave, MA = master, CS = cable select. As to accessing the old drive it depends whether the problem was with the drive or the OS (operating system) if the problem is the drive formatting it may repair the damage.
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the bios does't read the type of partition it anly reads the capacity space and the harware specification such as (cylinders, hesds, disks) etc...\nThe problem comes fro you hard disk device.\nTri to se him as master by changing the Jumper orientation (that is placed in on the back of the hard drive)\nGood Luck ;)\nohhh\ni forgot\nIf you need help ar online suport visit me at the ID SILVER_CRISS
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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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Sounds like you are coping the file to the other drive.  It will be easier if you right click on the file and do a cut an paste to the other drive.
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Not as a computer enjineer, but having a bit nation as far as computer is concern, i will say that you should use another driver to access or backup the programes in your bad disk or the other way; you should use networking to access the problems in your computer; that is to say that the other computer that you are using or other drive is now the slave. using the other computer as networking, you can easily recognice the problems.
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there is a small jumper block on the back of the cd drive....set it for slave....it's more then likely set as master and you can't have 2 masters on one ide Chanel
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check out the wesite below, you should be able to use either depending oon how many hdd you already have installed.
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I have used more than one copy of windows on the same hard disc, on different partition. When I boot my computer, windows will list the different copies of windows and allow selection of one to use. Must be on different partitions. Also, be careful when asked what location to store files, as windows will get confused sometimes and try to store files from one copy with other copy of windows. Be aware that your second copy will not use "drive C" as the main drive. I have 2 copies now and my second copy recognizes "Drive F" as my "C" drive. It will work though. Be safe to backup your files before starting.
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Data can be removed from a bad drive and we do it all the time.  Make sure your jumpers are setup correctly.\n\nCS  Cable Select\nMS  Master\nSL  Slave\n\nThen there is sometimes a jumper for Master with Slave Present, make sure JUMPERS are right.  Boot into BIOS and select detect drives, or just set them for Auto both will work.  If the drive is pooched, we can get your data for you.  Contact info below
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1 but if you go to the system adminstrator area under drive management it might show thw 2 drives ( if software raid ), but if you are using hardware raid the raid card will handle LBS translation anf feed that info to the OS you see 1 drive.
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if you have two hard drives then u can connect them as u like, the computer wil detect them any way. two types of connection exists, old computers have IDE bus with flat cable and new computers come with SATA bus with round cable, first find out what ur computer has, on an IDE bus u can connect 2 device, best way is to make one hard drive primary master on the first IDE bus (every computer has two IDE bus), put the second hard drive as secondry master on 2nd IDE bus, u wil need two IDE cable for this configuration, put ur other device like CD drive on any cable as slave device.\ndevice can be made master or slave using configuring pins at the back of each device, or from the bios.\n\nBoth hard disk can be hooked up on a single IDE cable, one as master other as slave but it makes them slow, as both cannot transfer data at the same time over the IDE cable, so putting them on two diffrent IDE cables makes them faster, both can tranfer data at the same time. (you wil need the second IDE cable any way if u have any other device like CD  drive which u want to connect)\n\nassuming that u had your operating system on the first hard drive, your computer wil detect the second hard drive when you boot into your operating system, if it is new hard disk u wil have to format it befor u can start using it, use control panel/administrative tools/computer management/disk management to format new hard drive or make partitions on it.\nhope it helps\nthx
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if u have another hardisk then setup it to be the primary and then attach the other disk as a slave, if it is not working then try some software like partition magic
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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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well really depends on what kind of hardrives you have are they IDE or SATA?? sata has raid features on it so you can  also doesnt matter how much space yor disks have to spped up ur system it reallt matters on the system ram
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You can only if the partitions are situated on different hard discs!
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i think that you must turn on a setting in windows that will allow the detection of large hard drives. also i will check the installation make sure you have configured it right the jumper should be set to either master or slave depending on what it is.