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Tiger-Heli:

If it's a two-week old PC, I doubt he's running Win98.   :cheers:

Chad has the right idea - listen to him.

First, I think Cable select may over-ride the jumper settings.  Make sure the blue HD connector is plugged into the mobo, the black (end) connector to the master (OS) drive, and the gray (middle) connector to the slave (data) drive.

If that doesn't fix it, you can either:

1)  Set the OS drive jumpers to master and the data to slave and see if that works.

2)  Set the OS drive to cable select and the data to cable select and see if that works.

3)  Plug the OS drive into IDE channel 1 and the data to IDE channel 2, and I don't think jumper settings matter at all.  (You MIGHT have a problem here if the OS was set as slave and the data was set as Master, not sure.

shmokes:

Yeah . . . your PC is seeing the slave hard drive as the master so it's trying to boot to that instead of the original drive.  Since it sees no OS on it, you get your error message.  Make sure the true Master drive is plugged into the end and that either BOTH drives are set to cable select, or the primary drive is set to master and the secondary drive set to slave.  I'm guessing that you set the new drive to slave, but didn't make changes to the original drive and it is almost certainly set to cable select.

Of course, all that assumes that the drives are sharing a single IDE cable.  If each are using their own cables make sure the master drive is plugged into IDE 0 on the motherboard and the slave drive is plugged into IDE 1.

gavkiwi:

I'm running XP, both drives are sharing the same IDE cable...how do I set both drives to 'cable select', im a bit of noob lol

ChadTower:


It's a jumper setting.  I don't use it, personally, unless I'm working with a setup that has a lot of IDE devices or swap drives frequently.

If they're on the same cable:

Set the master to master and slave to slave, plug them into IDE0, set IDE0 in BIOS to autodetect.

You will be good then.

Tiger-Heli:

I thought you said you already set it as a slave.

You're probably going to have to physically pull the drives out of the PC.

Newer drive will probably have a six-pin jumper block labelled CS, MA, SL.

CS is Cable Select.
MA is Master.
SL is Slave.

Put the jumper on the set of pins below the label.

Older drives will have more like a 20-pin jumper block.  It may have the jumper settings labelled on the drive sticker.

If not, you will need to write down the model number and check the manufacturer's website.

For example, here are the settings for Seagate (that I found b/c I couldn't remember which was the master for Cable Select): http://www.seagate.com/support/kb/disc/faq/ata_cable_select.html

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