Re: Hard Drive

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From: Nathan McNulty (525676_at_microsoft.com)
Date: 07/01/04 

Date: Thu, 01 Jul 2004 14:57:07 -0700

There is no reason not to use Cable Select as it automatically selects
which to act as. I build systems all the time and they work just fine
with the harddrive in Cable Select. Though I do prefer to set them to
Master/Slave.

I do have one question though. Is one drive SATA or are they both ATA?
And just because Windows can see the harddrive does not mean that the
jumpers are set correctly. Windows gets its information from the BIOS,
but the BIOS should have conflicts if they are both set to Master.

Nathan McNulty

Jerry wrote:
> DO NOT use cable select. The drive at the end of the cable's jumper is set
> to Master and the drive on the middle connector is set to slave.
>
> "Nathan McNulty" <525676@microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:%23QQICJ6XEHA.2016@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
>
>>You will need to set the pins on the back of each harddrive to get it to
>>show up. The first drive must be set to either Master or Cable Select
>>and the second must be set to either Slave or Cable Select. To do this,
>>there are little jumpers on the back of the harddrive. Once you have
>>done that, go into your BIOS and make sure everything is set up right.
>>Now reboot and see if that fixed the problem :)
>>
>>Nathan McNulty
>>
>>
>>Zach wrote:
>>
>>>Hey, I have an 80g hard drive that i've had for a while
>>>that has information on it that I need. I attached the
>>>drive to my new computer where it shows up in hardware
>>>manager and disc management but not my computer. When I
>>>go to assign a drive letter, the only selectable option
>>>is delete partition and help. How can I make this drive
>>>appear while keeping the information on it. All my hard
>>>drives are Western Digital which comes with Data
>>>Lifeguard Tools but when I called Western Digital, they
>>>told me not to use it. I've looked in BIOS but it says
>>>the right size for the drive. The file system is FAT32
>>>and the status is "Healthy (Active)".Thanks for your help.
>>> Zach
>>>
>
>
>

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