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need help with a 'slave' hard drive

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NightGod:
Just set it to cable select (which in many cases means no jumper at all, but check with the manufacturer's web site). If it is a major brand PC (Dell, IBM, HP, etc) and you bought it in the last five years, it will be using cable select, not master/slave jumpers. The go into the BIOS and set the Primary Slave to Auto/Automatic and you'll be done.

If you had a shop/friend build it for you, then you might have to go the master/slave route.

And your PC guru father-in-law is totally off in this case, there is zero reason you should have to format the drive. Sounds like someone with just enough knowledge to utterly hose up your system, double-check any advice you get from him.

ChadTower:

If he sets it to cable select he has to make sure he puts it on the right connector on the cable... and they're usually not marked.

billf:
Right, but if he follows shmokes steps above that should take care of it.  One end of the cable into the motherboard, the next connector is the slave (middle connector on the cable) and the master on the other end of the cable.

ChadTower:

That's when his expert walks in and says "you forgot to put the magic cheeto in there".

billf:
True, very true.  Keep the "expert" away while doing this.   ;)

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