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Thread ID: 38224 2003-10-01 01:40:00 New HDD problem Curly (487) Press F1
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179473 2003-10-03 21:44:00 Well the problem is solved - by a roundabout sort of way!!!!!

I took both HDD's out of the wifes computer and installed them into mine.
Her system drive became HDD 0 primary master and her new maxtor 40 gig became my prim slave on HDD 1.

Grabed Ghost and copied her HDD 0 to the new drive, put her new system drive into her computer, as HDD 0, and away we went. splendid. Once she as finished un installing, I will put her origional HDD back in as the system drive as prim/master.

Gota say though folks, thanks to you all. learned a hellava lot about HDD's, well I thought I did untill I found another post discussing HDD's and the use of them, setting them up etc. And I really did not have much idea what they were even talking about :-)

Thanks folks, you have been rocks - now I wonder what will be next :-)
Curly (487)
179474 2003-10-04 13:39:00 I think that you will find that on the Maxtor, no jumpers is Master.
At least it is on the 20gig drive.
Mzee (158)
179475 2003-10-04 20:40:00 I don't know about other Maxtor drives Mzee, but on the Maxtor 6e040l0 7200RPM 40 Gig, no jumpers is slave. :-) Curly (487)
179476 2003-10-05 08:56:00 On new maxtor drives, the jumper in position 1 is master, or 1&4 if you want to clip it to 32gb. pompeymike (4601)
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