Re: Dual boot & master/slave
- From: "Anna" <myname@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2007 22:18:05 -0400
"Lady Dungeness" <Lady.Dungeness@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I'm trying to install a new Western Digital 160 gig hard drive. The
old harddrive is SAMSUNG SV1533D. It was originally part of a
dual-boot ocnfiguration. Then the other disk crashed, and the
computer refused to boot from the Samsung. I took the computer to a
shop. They recovered my data, removed the bad HD, and they said "the
Samsung can be the master."
Did they change the jumper settings on the Samsung? I don't know.
This was 6 months ago and I'm sure the tech doesn't remember.
My installation guide says to set the new HD jumpers to be the Primary
controller / Slave Drive. I did this.
My installation guide says to make sure the Samsung's jumpers are set
to Primary Controller / Master with Slave.
How do I find out what the Samsung's jumper settings are? I don't
have a manual. I went online, but the only Samsung info was not
specific to this Samsung SV1553D, did not relate to the SV-series, and
was written in Janglish. I could not understand it.
1. If I'm going to have a dual-boot configuration, does it really
matter?
2. If it matters, I'll want the new WESTERN DIGITAL to be the master,
and make the Samsung the slave.
3. How do I do this?
4. What do I do next?
Lady Dungeness
Crabby, but Great Legs!
Lady D.
Your Samsung HDD is really "old-in-the-tooth" to say the least. It's a 15 GB
HDD, and honestly, it's an ancient relic by today's standards. I can't
imagine that it will serve any useful purpose in your system. With hard
drives selling as low as 25 cents per GB in today's market, can you possibly
afford another new HDD that you could profitably use in your system in
either a dual-boot configuration or simply as a secondary HDD? That really
would be the practical & wisest way to go in my view.
I'm assuming, of course, that your 160 GB WD is a PATA, and not a SATA HDD.
As such, it should ordinarily be set up as Primary Master in your system.
Apparently you're familiar with jumper settings and general HDD connections.
So that the WD HDD would be connected as Master on the Primary IDE
controller of your motherboard.
There is, however, one minor complicating matter involving modern WD HDDs
that you should be aware of. If, for one reason or another, there is no
device connected as a Slave on the same data cable that is connected to the
WD drive, the jumper setting should be set as Single and not Master.
Actually with modern WD PATA HDDs - presumably such as the one you have - a
Single setting is "jumperless". So just be aware of this.
Assuming you do establish a dual-boot configuration with another HDD, it
probably would be best if you connected/configured it as Secondary Master,
although it may function (boot) without problems even if connected as
Primary Slave. But generally Secondary Master is the preferred
configuration.
If, on the other hand, you use another HDD merely as a secondary drive for
storage/backup purposes, then it really doesn't matter whether it's
connected as a Slave on the Primary IDE channel or anywhere on the Secondary
IDE channel.
Anna
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