I've taken a 30GB hard drive out of a older computer which has Windows ME, and attempted to conect it via jumper. I've connected the slave drive according to the lable on jumper cable but when I boot I get an error saying that it can't find the operating system. When I disconect the main hard drive the slave drive works on its own, what gives? Do I have to format the Slave hardrive?
2006-08-28 22:08:30 · 9 answers · asked by sasha 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Add-ons
Almost forgot, the computer I'm installing it on is another HP Pavilion, but newer
2006-08-28 22:10:05 · update #1
Well to Install Slave hard drive you need to do the Following
1-Make sure the Hard drive Jumper in the right Place
and if you do not know what i am talking about
you look at the end of Your hard drive and you will see small Black or white or any color plastic and you will see on the hard drive somewhere
Instruction
well
You do The same steps with the Primary Hard and make sure The Jumper is on Master
and you do the same thing with the slave hard drive and make sure the Jumper in the salve position
anyway if you do that
Restart Your Computer
and while it is coming up keep pressing F2 So You can to the Motherboard config
and Then you will see The hard driver Information The both
and Then you set to go
and Then restart Your PC
and i hope it will work
peace i am Out
2006-08-28 23:41:53 · answer #1 · answered by Momomada 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If when you disconnect the master hard drive, the "slave" works on it's own, that means that you've got it setup to be the master, not the slave. You can't boot from a slave hard drive.
Put the jumper on your new hard drive (the one that came with the new computer) in the slot all the way to the left. Put the older drives' jumper all the way to the right, and everything should be fine.
2006-08-29 06:28:41 · answer #2 · answered by alchemist_n_tx 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The simplest way is look at your hard drive and you will see 3 settings M for Master; S for Slave ; CS for Cable Select. Try moving the jumpers on the hard drives to CS and see if that does not work for you. Also make sure that the operating systems on both hard drives are no the same
2006-08-28 22:18:36 · answer #3 · answered by bordermec 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Check whether your main hard drives jumper settings are in master. If not set it to master and try again. Or you may interchange the cable (transfer hard drive to the cable u connect the slave drive and slave drive to the other). If this doesn't work try to connect it to IDE cable which connect to CD ROM drive. If all of those doesn't work, i suppose u may format the OS drive in new hard disk.
2006-08-29 03:07:34 · answer #4 · answered by Sithara 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Make sure the hard rive is set to be the slave drive. There should be a jumper on the hard drive that you can change from master to slave.
2006-08-28 22:13:04 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You need to make sure the master drive jumper is set to master, you will then need to set the jumper on the slave drive to slave!
2006-08-28 22:19:55 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hi you may find as i have in the past that some of the slightly older HP's will only except the 1 hard drive.Have you been into the bios start menu and set it to auto detect hard drives?This may help.
2006-08-28 22:15:09 · answer #7 · answered by martinsbits2000 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
bypass to the administration Panel and lower than Administrative procedures opt for computing device administration. lower than storage in the left panel, opt for Disk administration. on the right, you will see that your drives. If there isn't any stress letter assigned, excellent click it and choose replace stress Letter and Paths. Set it and it ought to now be accessible.
2016-11-23 12:35:03 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
the master should be the hard disk with the operating system on it.... try to insert those cables properly.....
2006-08-28 22:18:39 · answer #9 · answered by erwin 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋