With cable select what order do you put the master and slave drives?
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Ordinarily, the master should be at the far length of the cable and the slave at the middle connector. However you should avoid using cable select if you dont have to and connect the master at the closest physical distance.
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Assuming master and slave jumpers are set correctly, there are a couple of possible explanations as to why drives are not recognized.\n\nFirst, you should access the computer BIOS (typically a message at boot up to "enter SETUP" by pressing a key (F1, F2, DELETE).  After a few seconds you should be at a screen with basic information about your computer.  Read the directions carefully to locate a page dealing with drives.  Just make sure there is no setting that would not permit the CD or DVD drives to be used.  This would be pretty unlikely.\n\nAssuming you don't find a problem there, you will need to power down the computer and re-open the case to determine if you have porperly oriented the ribbon connectors that connect the drives to the motherboard.\n\nFirst, determine which side of each drive has the #1 pin (there should be an indicaton of it somewhere on the drive housing).  Then look at the ribbon connector to see which side has the red or pinkish tint to it.  This is the side you connect to the end with the #1 pin.\n\nIf both cables were correctly oriented, you will need to check the ribbon cable connection on the motherboard.  Again, refer to the red or pinkish side of the ribbon cable.  Make sure it is positioned on the #1 pin side of the motherboard (the orientation should be on the board nearby, with a "1" at one end and "40" at the other).\n\nIf you still do not have access to these drives, I have no further suggestions.  Good luck.
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ATA (IDE EIDE), SCSI, SATA\n\nThe link at wiki will give you more.
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IDE And ATA Hard Drives are one in the same, all you have to do is get a second ATA!!! Hard Drive and set the jumper on the back to slave (there are instructions on the box and in the actual HD on how to set the jumper) and plug in the slave section of the IDE cable in the the second HD also, you will need to check your first HD to make sure its set on master, and that your system can run in RAID
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no need to change any jumper stting just  put the other hard disk in place of cd rom and it will work and if u want cd rom also then check the jumper setting of ur cd rom and remove the jumper frm cd rom and put it in same place of hard disk  it will b taken as secondary harddisk automatically slave..
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well, friend you need to ask yourself these three simple questions\n\n1) did i set the jumpers correctly?\nmost drives show you how to set thier drives accordingly, some have similar settings, but some have completley different settings, id check this out first buddy, could be the cause.\n\n2) is it on its own cable? \n(if it isnt, is the cable the right way around?) "depending on cable, some have no notch to say which is right way ,  \nRemember red wire on the cable faces toward the power socket for the drive"\n\nand last but not least\n\n3)if its on its own cable, \n\n(3a) is the cable damaged? , if it is, a simple replacement of the cable should fix it.\n\n(3b)is it the right way around? \n(wrong end to mobo and wrong end to drive)\nsimply moving each end in vice versa to above fixes this one.\n\nhope this helps,\ndez
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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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Try using other free cables for the CD-RW\nboth IDE, and Power cables\n\nor maybe it is something wrong with the master/slave setting\n\ndunno u didn't give much detail
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you could install it as a slave drive and transfer files and install an os, then either switch the control for master/slave (varies by computer) or just switch the cables with the old hd. (you may have to switch places too, some of those cables are short and inflexible)
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You shouldn't have to....\nFirst you have to determine if it a master or slave drive.\nIf the IDE cable is connected to both the cd and your harddrive, the HD would be the master and the cd the slave. Check the jumper pin on the back of the cd and make sure it is on the appropriate pins. If the cd is on a seperate IDE cable it could be the secondary master, again check the pins for Master or Slave. Check that the cd drive is connected to power. Lastly, when booting the computer, you have to go into your BIOS settings to enable the drive and then save your settings. Should work fine after that.\nOh yeah, one more thing......the IDE cable has a red stripe on one side.....that red stripe should be on the side closest to the power connection.
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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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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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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'
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your max hdd size is deermined by your OS and your budget. What can you afford? you could fit 2 hdd's into your pc one as the master and one as the slave then you'll have 2 really large ones:))
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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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doesn't matter, the jumper on the hard disk decide which disk is master and which is slave.
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HDD Jumper (Hard Disk Drive) is(are) the jumper(s) that define on what interface the Hard Disk will run on.\n\nMost HDDs will be set to SINGLE MASTER what means that the HDD will be the only Drive connected to the IDE channel.\n\nOther Settings are Primary Master, Primary Slave, Secondary Master and Secondary Slave.\n\nWhere Primary is the FIRST IDE Channel, Secondary is the SECOND IDE Channel and Master is the FIRST Device on that Channel and Slave the Secondary Device.\n\nAND of course, a JUMPER Shortcircuits 2 PINS, in this case to make one of the above connections.\n\n(This is for IDE HDDs, SCSI and newer SATA Drives mostly dont need to be set with a Jumper)