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Drive Letter Assignments
I had to have the Master hard drive in my computer replaced. I was told to leave the Slave hard drive disconnected while I installed my XP OS on the Master drive, which I did. I then connected my Slave hard drive. Now the computer reads the Slave drive as...
Tags: btljooz, computer, D, Drive Letter, F, Slave Drive, Slave Hard drive, windows
Q&A 2005-10-13

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new hard drive old slave drive not recognized
I recently had to install a new master hd on my laptop. My slave drive is in a removable modular bay. I removed it when I formatted my new master drive. when I have my removable hard drive in now with the new master it is not recognized. How can...
Tags: Notebooks, johnical@..., hard drive
Discussion threads 2007-03-18
windows Xp slave drive
I have installed a new WD master drive on windows xp and a samsung slave drive i cannot get windows to recognise the slave. CMOS sees the slave windows device mgr can see the slave, but i cannot access it. All straps are correct and i have tried different...
Tags: window, slave, tonye@..., windows, Microsoft Windows XP
Q&A 2005-05-06
hard drive (slave) failure
I did a stupid thing.WinXP on internal master drive.slave hard drive in external box connected by USB.Everything was running great.I tried installing a new application on the slave.the installation program froze.I could not end the instal
Tags: external slave usb hard drive inaccessable, hardware, tgoodman@..., hard drive, Device Manager, CD, computer
Discussion threads 2006-11-07
My computer won't read the slave hard drive, it's not showing in BIOS
I reinstall windows on the master hard drive, for some reason my slave hard drive cannot be read by windows it doen't even show on the BIOS. I have all my work on that drive please if there's a way for my computer to read the slave let me know...
Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Construction, daisy_m_reyes@..., hard drive, computer, BIOS
Discussion threads 2007-08-26
NTFS hard disk now recognized as 'RAW'
My Windows XP was recently corrupted and my hard disk was password protected. In an effort to retrieve my old info I slaved my hard disk to a friends PC. I changed the permissions on my old, slaved drive and all was well. I then installed a secondary 250 GB...
Tags: NTFS, darksound_@..., primary slave, slave, hard drive
Discussion threads 2007-07-14
Computer boots to slave HDD unless Windows XP CD is in drive
This computer has two hard drives, a 40GB primary drive and a 120GB slave drive. The main user of this computer installed the main version of Windows onto the slave drive, and left a somewhat corrupted version of Windows on the primary drive. When the computer booted up, there would...
Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Windows XP, daniel_braykovich@..., Microsoft Windows, hard drive, computer, CD
Discussion threads 2007-03-15
slave hd
my maxstor hard drive says slave jumper is off and i cant get it to slave.what can i do?Instead of slaveTry setting it to cable select and then hooking it up to the second cable. I have had this work before.
Tags: Cable, Network technology, alihadi43@...
Discussion threads 2007-05-09
moving programs from master drive to slave drive
Hi all, this is the first time using this site. My question is this. I have a master and slave hard drive and I would like to take the two programs that use the most memory and put them along with all the files on the slave and I would...
Tags: rickawienecke@...
Discussion threads 2006-12-21
Secondary Hard Drive Start Up
HelloI recently installed a secondary hard drive in my computer, with both set to "cable select" the grey IDE connection the slave works the first time I boot the computer, then it doesn't see the drive on the second boot. The HDD light remains light all the after the...
Tags: akaakk@..., hard drive, cable select
Discussion threads 2007-10-03
New Hard Drive Installation
I am installing a new hard drive in my PC. The old hard drive is partitioned, with "C:" being the Primary and "D" being Secondary. If I setup the old hard drive as the "Slave" can I just transfer the files from the old hard drive to the...
Tags: new Hard Drive, old hard drive, hard drive, gbalonek@..., hardware, Serial ATA
Q&A 2006-03-13
Can't access slave drive
During a Defrag on my slave drive (Windows 2000) my power went out. Now it won't access the slave drive. Upon start-up it says the Master fat table on the slave is bad. All drives are NTFS format. How do I fix the fat table on the...
Tags: m1cracker@..., slave
Discussion threads 2007-08-11
Slave drive problem
Hello everybody im new to this website and i have a question regarding a hard drive. Up until recently both of the hard drives that i have worked fine. It is only after i cleaned the computer with compressed air that ive enountered a problem. When i hook up both...
Tags: Web site development, magicx_06@..., jumper, hard drive
Discussion threads 2007-06-13
Installing old hardrive as slave drive
I would like to transfer some files from my older hard drive onto the newer computer. Is this a complicated process? Both systems use Windows XP. I am not able to connect both computers with a cord because the older comp. will not function. So putting the older harddrive as...
Tags: johnmsams@..., older harddrive, hard drive, cable, slave
Discussion threads 2007-06-05
Clicking Hard Drive
One day my hard drive started clicking, then turned off, when I started up a screen came up saying please install system disc. Any way to get this drive to read again so I can retrieve the data on that drive? Soney computer using xp,sp2MaybeI would try to put the...
Tags: Storage management, hard drive
Discussion threads 2006-03-27
Cannot detect slave drive???
Hi, When I opened the computer cover of my CPU,I realised that the ribbon cable is unplugged from my hard disk.When I plug it back and restart my PC,I only see my C: partition.Initially the slave drive was named D but I can see it under 'My Computer' nor...
Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, erichan@..., computer
Discussion threads 2007-07-07
Boot disk failure
I have a Compaq desktop computer that is running Windows XP. When I turn it on I get a message that reads; Boot Disk Failure, Please insert system disk. I have tried to diagnose the problem and it seems to be the hard drive. I have an older computer hardrive...
Tags: Microsoft Windows, ccallis@..., Microsoft Windows 98, BOOT-DISK FAILURE, hard drive, boot-disk
Discussion threads 2007-06-13
Unrecognized hard drive
I am working on a Dell Dimension 2400 with 2 GBytes of RAM and a Celeron 2.4 GHz processor. I was trying to install a 500 GByte Seagate Barracuda hard drive but it will only be recognized if I set it up as a slave. I can format...
Tags: Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP, rjforster@..., BIOS, Seagate Barracuda, hard drive
Discussion threads 2007-10-21
Slave hard drive problems
I have installed successfully a new slave hard drive (160gb, 7200 rpm), which has no conflict. My aim was to store my video files on it I do lots of editing which is pretty disk space greedy. I can copy files over onto the new drive, but when I go...
Tags: rfollett@..., hardware, hard drive
Q&A 2006-09-25
Hard Drive Installation/Set Up Assistance
I recently purchased a new 80gb hard drive for my old P3 machine. I installed it, but am unsure of the jumpers. I have a cd-rom drive which is the secondary master, but according to the hard drive itself, it says that the jumper is supposed to connect...
Tags: Network technology, jbzeigler@..., cable, hard drive, cable select, jumper
Discussion threads 2007-11-01
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