I just installed a slave hard drive into my computer, and it won't boot up. It gets stuck on that self test screen. When I take the slave drive out, the computer boots fine. When I make the slave drive the master, it almost boots up but gets stuck on the screen asking if i want to run windows normally or in safe mode.
the slave drive and the original drive both have windows xp on them. I can't reformat the slave drive because I need the information on it.
The jumpers on the drives are also correct. The slave drive worked fine in another computer but I changed the RAM in it and now nothing happens, the monitor doesnt even respond to it. Is there any way I can get this drive to work?
2007-08-21 13:37:06 · 3 answers · asked by jasv2 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
if its ide put it on the other channel as a slave and try that ...it should be fine if the jumper is actually on slave ...
2007-08-21 13:43:36 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If all you need to do is to back up whatever it is you want to save on the drive, try disconnecting the CD/DVD drives from the other IDE or SATA cable and install the drive on that cable. You should be able to access it as the D drive through Windows Explore.
Hope this helps.
2007-08-21 13:46:54 · answer #2 · answered by Dick 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you're able to desire to have the workstation off once you plug the adapter in. IDE isn't warm-swappable. Then, the adapter could desire to have a jumper on it to point regardless of if thechronic is slave, grasp or set to cable go with.
2016-10-09 00:07:14 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋