I have a hard drive (3.5" IDE) which has plagued me since I installed it. It's always been incredibly slow. Transferring files around it and to/from it take a very long time. I was told I might be able to speed it up by changing the jumper shunt position. So I did it. I changed the shunt to every possible position and started up the PC again. The only one that works is the CS Enabled one. Fair enough, I can't speed it up. But now there's something else. When I reconnect it with CS Enabled, the hard drive is being detected as new and unformatted. I can't use it unless I format it but I have a lot of important files on it that I really don't want to lose. Does anyone know what's wrong. Help would be greatly appreciated.
By the way, the hard drive is a Maxtor DiamondMax with 160gb.
2007-03-08 05:52:28 · 7 answers · asked by Graham T 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
I don't think it's the primary drive. My PC came with a hard drive, and I bought this one separately.
2007-03-08 06:23:26 · update #1
What operating system and is this the primary drive?
Swithing jumpers is really a bad idea on a drive with data on it particularly when that really wont speed it up.
If this is the primary drive and if the boot track is all that is missing you may be able to recover it but you will need some tools (hard drive software) to recover it.
2007-03-08 06:20:22 · answer #1 · answered by Tracy L 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The jumpers on an ide drive usually have positions fo CS (Cable select) and master or slave.
CS is used with some system that swap a couple of wires in the ribbon between the 1st and second drive connector.
I am guessing that the BIOS did not recognize the drive and disabled it in one of the other settings, and you may have to reconfigure the the bios settings.
only a few pc's use the CS setting. most use Master for the 1st drive and Slave for the second drive. look at the diagram on the drive. Some drives also have jumpers that are only useful if the drive is used in a raid array.
2007-03-16 06:33:22 · answer #2 · answered by Niklaus Pfirsig 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try disconnecting the CD/DVD drive cable and use that one to connect the drive, use either CS or master and the drive should show up as the drive letter for the CD/DVD drive, then copy what you need off of it.
2007-03-08 08:13:04 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-12-05 10:17:23 · answer #4 · answered by Erika 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Connect your hard drive to another working system as secondary master from there run dos prompt and run SCANDISK/ALL.Scandisk fix your 90 % of hard disk problem OK.
2007-03-15 19:20:27 · answer #5 · answered by najuras 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I feel that your Hard drive cannot support your operating system or maybe your computers physical memory must be low that is why it must be slow.
2007-03-15 21:01:08 · answer #6 · answered by netelt 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i am not sure what you are asking?
2007-03-15 18:38:45 · answer #7 · answered by beeutifulbumbleb 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋