new to this group: problems with drives

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In our library we have one computer that was donated to us new last year. An emachine. Have used this for small tasks due to one hard drive 60gig.

We want to add another drive. The one single IDE cable : half has red line, half does not. Yes that's right. Have had four 1sy-year student techs in our computer dept.look at it, but no one can come up with what to do.

The red line cable goes to CD drive.
The nonred line cable goes to the existing master.

We have been working on jumpers and drives trying to add an existing hard drive from a bad box to it as a slave, to copy off data we stored for the library...

nothing is working. We keep getting boot errors.

One drive (Emachine master) is xphome.
the Other drive to add as slave is xppro, shouldn't matter, but just won't work.


Thanks for all your help.


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    ... We have been working on jumpers and drives trying to add an ... hard drive from a bad box to it as a slave, ... One drive (Emachine master) is xphome. ...
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  • Re: new to this group: problems with drives
    ... We have been working on jumpers and drives trying to add an existing ... hard drive from a bad box to it as a slave, to copy off data we stored ... One drive (Emachine master) is xphome. ... Noting that the system was donated, I'm guessing that it might not be in the library's budget, but an external USB hard drive enclosure would be another way of adding a second hard drive to this system. ...
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