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| Thread ID: 53542 | 2005-01-20 14:10:00 | Installed slave hardrive, but now can't find cd-rom drive | i8reds (6935) | Press F1 |
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| 316128 | 2005-01-20 14:10:00 | Installed slave hardrive, but now can't find cd-rom drive Hi I am a newbie and don’t understand a lot of the computer jargon, but I can follow instruction so please help. I took my old hardrive out of my old computer and changed the jumper to slave using tweezers, I connected my old hardrive into my new computer by connecting a grey ribbon cable socket which was connected to the cable to my exsisting hardrive and I also connect a socket which had 2 yellow wires 2 red and 4 back (I think.) Once I turned on my computer windows xp desktop loaded up as usual, and in the bottom right hand corner of the screen a little box said new hardware/hardrive dettected/added (something like that) I click on D drive in my computer to find that my old hardrive had been installed in their automatically, but d drive is where I used to play cd’s or dvd’s and I can’t play them now. When I put in a cd or dvd my computer doesn’t even detect/find it! When I click on D drive all my old folders and documents from my old hardrive are on it! Please help me with a simple step by step guide -Thanks |
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| 316129 | 2005-01-20 14:25:00 | It is possible that if you connected your hard-drive as Slave to the same ATA cable(the one with 40 or 80 wires) that already had the CD Rom as slave. Check to make sure that your cdrom isnt set to slave or cable sclect. 1-Remove your old harddisk, and cdrom. 2-Set the Hard-disk to master and cdrom to slave. 3-Attach your harddrive and cdrom to the same ATA wire. Everything should work now. KOz |
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| 316130 | 2005-01-21 09:48:00 | Your CD drive will now be E drive. | lark (1313) | ||
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