I've mentioned it around here before, but I need a way to be able to get into a hard drive of mine that has a virus or something (it keeps restarting itself before getting to the desktop), but whenever I hook up the bad drive with the good one I am currently using (as a temporary), it loads both hard drives and I run into the same problem. Someone else mentioned something about hooking it to the slave deal. Anyways, can someone give me a simple, dumbed down version on how to hook my hard drive up to where I can pick and choose what to take from the bad drive and put on the good one?
2007-09-10 05:00:56 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
Just follow step by step:
http://compreviews.about.com/od/tutorials/ss/DIYSecHD.htm
Your new drive should be the Master with an OS loaded. Treat your old drive now as the one you are adding.
2007-09-16 15:31:29 · answer #1 · answered by Karz 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Looking at the back of your hard drive from right to left you will see:
A 4-pin power supply connector, then the 40-pin ribbon connector, then a series of pins - either 6,8,or 10 depending on your drive. That last series of pins will have one or two little plastic pieces called jumpers.
This is where you set each drive to MA, SL, or CS (Master, Slave, or Cable Select). All drives are slightly different, but they have have a schematic showing you what pins to bridge (with the jumper) to set accordingly. If not, then the pins are labeled MA, SL, or CS.
Set the temporary drive (the one that boots) to MA and plug the end of the cable into it. Set the other drive (the one with problems) to SL and plug it into the middle of the ribbon cable.
When you boot, you should be booting to the temporary drive (assuming it has Windows installed on it) and you will see you other drive either as D:, E:, F: (whatever the next letter available is).
2007-09-10 05:50:02 · answer #2 · answered by wyntre_2000 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Look at your drives' diagrams on top of the respective drives. There you will see what pins to short or unshort at the back of your drives to either make the new one the master and the old one the slave. The master disk will be drive C and will boot up first. When you have windows running, go to your slave disk, which might be assigned by your PC as drive D or E. Access your needed files from there and transfer to your new hard disk. You can format your slave disk to remove even the virus.
2007-09-10 05:20:35 · answer #3 · answered by wind m 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just hook it up to your new drive as a slave, that is however if you OS is booting from your new drive, your old one is probably failing so time is of the essence, look at the jumper settings in back of the hard drive, switch the one that is not booting your OS as a slave, then just turn your computer on and grab things quickly before it fails and stops spinning.
This is what the jumper settings look like, its not the same for every drive but there should be a diagram on the back of yours:
http://www.easeus.com/resource/images/install-ide-hard-drive-jumper.gif
2007-09-10 05:09:30 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i might at first attempt it as an inner force. If SATA (skinny records cable) basically plug in to a laptop. If IDE (PATA)with a tremendous 2" records cable set up it as a slave with the aid of changing the jumper plug on the returned of it. there will be somewhat photograph to coach you the putting. that assist you to understand if it is the force at fault or the enclosure. What make and style of force is it? some have a three 12 months assure. in case you prefer extra stepby step mail me.
2016-10-18 13:13:36 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yep.
2007-09-17 21:59:41 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋