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Tiger-Heli:


--- Quote from: gavkiwi on October 19, 2006, 02:05:58 pm ---ok, it is set to the last setting 'limited drive capacity', will change the jumper settings and try again...is it normal to get nervous when opening up the case of a PC when doing this type of thing?

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It may not be set to limited drive capacity.  The example that I and Shardian posted was for Seagate drives.  If it's a Maxtor or Western Digital or Samsung or Hitachi, or . . ., they use different jumper blocks and you need to check their websites and set accordingly.

We were just trying to give you examples.

gavkiwi:

ok, I was not aware of that, yeah I have a WD, so the pins on the right hand side indicate 'cable select', hmmm yet when it was plugged in the PC thought it was a new Master/not a slave.

Should I just set the pins to slave and be done with it, or load the BIOS and alter a setting in that, what to do?

shmokes:

You don't have to mess with anything in the BIOS.  Just set the jumper settings on the 120 GB drive to slave.  But you also need to check the jumper settings of your original drive.  Drives are almost always shipped with CS jumpered by default.  You need to have the jumpers configured correctly on both drives, i.e., master on one, slave on the other -- not CS on one, slave on the other. 

Don't be nervous about messing with the jumper settings.  They have no effect on the data on your drive.  You can change the jumper settings all you want and in the end, putting them back the way they were will make your computer look like it did.

So do this:

1- Check the jumper settings on your original drive.  Most drives have a diagram printed on the label, or above the jumper block.  If not you have to get the model # off the drive and check the jumper diagram on the manufacturers website.
2- Make sure the original drive is set to Master.  If you've never changed the jumper it is almost certainly set to Cable Select (CS).
3- Make sure the original drive is plugged into the end of the cable and not the middle.  Technically this should only matter for drives using Cable Select, but I've always thought it was better to just configure it this way to begin with to be nice and standardized and avoid any problems.
4- Set the 120 GB drive to Slave.
5- Plug the 120 GB drive into the middle of the IDE cable.

You're done.  You don't need to alter anything in the BIOS.  You're computer will automatically detect boot to your original drive and your 120 GB drive will automatically mount itself and be assigned a drive letter by Windows.  Plug and play.

Edit: thanks gavkiwi  edit 2: er . . . billf that is

billf:


--- Quote from: shmokes on October 19, 2006, 07:15:47 pm ---5- Plug the original drive into the middle of the IDE cable.

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Shmokes - I think you mean the "120 GB drive" for item 5 not the "original drive".

Gavkiwi - follow shmokes steps above and you should have it working in no time.

ChadTower:


Shmokes, not all motherboards are set to autodetect by default.  Some PCs ship with the boot drive specified, type and size, on the channel where it sits.  Not sure why they still do that but it is possible he'll have to set those IDE channels to autodetect.

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