Re: new to this group: problems with drives

Cable position only matters if you do not have jumpers in play. The middle
connector should do fine. Even trying both a master jumper setting, then a
slave couldn't hurt anything.
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Mark L. Ferguson



"Professor Joe" wrote:

Professor Joe was thinking very hard :
Nepatsfan expressed precisely :
In mn.b9ca7d744c416ab0.70004@0com">news:mn.b9ca7d744c416ab0.70004@0com,
Professor Joe <nothere@@$^%#&.com> wrote:
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.

Here are a couple of suggestions that might get you an answer to your
question.

First off, It would be helpful if you'd pass along the model number of the
eMachines computer.

Second, if it's possible, you might want to get a digital camera and take a
picture of the motherboard and the troublesome cable. Depending on your
ISP, you may be able to attach the image to a future post to this
newsgroup. If that's not possible, there are sites on the internet which
will provide free hosting of images. Here's one,

http://imageshack.us/

Getting back to your problem, you're trying to add a hard drive from what
you describe as a "bad box". Did any of the students test this drive in
another computer to see if it even works? How about using a different IDE
cable instead of the one that came with the eMachines system?

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.

Good luck

Nepatsfan

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thanks for the great suggestion about disconnecting CD, changed jumper to CD
jumper format, and turned it back on. WALLAH!!!!!!!

Whew!
Much thanks, that is GREAT!

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going to ask one more question and much thanks again to this FAB u lous
group.

Want to hook CD back up to its original cables, there is one black
empty connector on that string (then in the middle between CD and
mobo), can I hook slave drive to that, should it work that way?

Thanks again to this great group. We will be back, I am sure.



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