Building a computer- setting master & Slave on hardrives?
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Follow the steps below, one of which should help\n\n1st: Check the data cable to see if there is a pinhole through one wire and/or if the connections are colour coded,(blue to controller, grey in middle to slave, black on end to master).  If it does, set both drives to cable select, with the one to be master at the end (both drives on the same cable).\n\n2nd: If the cable is a regular PATA cable, remove the old HDD, set new drive to master, and re-install the OS.  If this works, connect the old HDD as slave.\n\n3rd: check again in BIOS for the correct booth sequence.\n\nHope this help.
1075845
Basically you can make it as a slave because your BIOS can detect the hard drive with win xp. But when you boot up your 98 OS, you will see that it still cant see new drives there bec your 98 OS has the fat32 file format, and it cannot read NTFS (which is obviously the format your win xp uses).  Either you make the win xp drive as master so that it boots up first (if that works) then you can manage both harddrives without a problem. Make sure you back-up your files before trying to manipulate the drives just in case something goes wrong. =)
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Check the hard drives.  Normally their will be a little plastic tab that you can move to different sets of jumper wires at the end of the hard drive.  These determine whether a hard drive is consider the master drive, a slave drive, or is assigned master or slave depending on which connector on the cable it is attached to.  There will normally be either a small chart or some labels by the jumpers that show where the tab needs to be for the drive to be master, slave or cable select.  \n\nRecord the settings for each drive.  Then set the tabs to match the setting of the old drive.  (Meaning if the drive in computer A is master, and the drive in B is cable select, the set A to cable select and B to master.  Then swap them, putting them on the same connector the old drive came off.\n\nHopefully then the PCs will boot up with the swapped drives
207704
check out the wesite below, you should be able to use either depending oon how many hdd you already have installed.
166520
If you have a Maxtor or a WD hard drive, go to their web site.  They have a tool you can download for free (but only works on their drives as the target drive) that will do what you want.\n\nIt's basically the same tool, but setup to work for only that company.
1104830
Open up the computer and change the jumper on the back of the drive. If there are 2 drives on the same cable (the wide one) only 1 can be master and 1 slave. It should have instructions on where to put the jumpers on the back.
965456
GO INTO BIOS AND ADVANCED SETUP TELL THE COMPUTER TO SEARCH FOR HARD-DRIVE AND IT SHOULD PICK UP BOTH HARD-DRIVES.
830554
Yes you can!!\n\nIDE and Sata channels both run completely separate interfaces and can work very well together.\n\nIf you're thinking of filling up with drives, I would recommend checking the output of the PC power supply.  Hard drives use quite a bit of power.\n\nAnother good tip for extra performance:  If you get 2 sata drives (same size) and use the sata raid 0 (zero) option, it will use both drives as one large volume.  It will also write data across both drives (striped) which means installed programs will run twice as \nfast - as it reads data from both drives at once.  Keep windows installed on the IDE drive, but move Windows paging file to the sata volume.  You will get an immediate and noticable performance boost with this option.\n\nHope this helps :)
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turn pc off.\ncheck the jumper is set to slave on writer.\nslide it through the bay in the tower.\nplug in the IDE lead.\nplug in the power.\nstart up the pc.\n\nvoila.
708443
Check the master and slave jumper settings. Also go into the BIOS and see if it can detect them.
1037975
you will have to set it in BIOS
940068
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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try switching the cable or you may not have them setup as master and slave
100749
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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doesn't matter, the jumper on the hard disk decide which disk is master and which is slave.
830780
well to start off with the hp computers store some of the bios on the hard drive make sure you use the original hard drive as boot drive you might have to install one hard drive shut down install another hard drive and restart to auto detect.  You will have to use the master or slave jumper on both hard drives to get the hard drives to detect.
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Yeah, you're correct.  Motherboards and harddrives NEVER get along, you can only use one or the other.