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| 52031 | 2002-06-02 03:28:00 | Hello, Put an old hard drive into second hand IBM,and now want to add the original IBM machine's hard drive. It has taken the old hard drive (with Windows 98 SE) but has conflicts after the second hard drive is added. Is there something I have to manually change in the bios or for Windows 98 SE to recognise it? Thanks Bill O'Byrne |
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| 52032 | 2002-06-02 03:38:00 | Make the little jumper thingys next to plugs on the hard drives are set right. The drive on the very end of the cable should be Primary Master and the one in the middle of the cable should be primary slave. That done, you may have to set things up in your BIOS if it doesn't recognise it. Hard drive settings may be written on the hard drive itself - things like no. of heads, cylinders and capacity. |
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| 52033 | 2002-06-02 05:24:00 | Hi. As GTG says, make sure that the jumpers on each drive are set correctly - master or slave must correspond with the drive's jumper position. In your bios make sure that all IDE drives are set to auto detect. Check that the startup sequence reads your primary master first, probably C, assuming that is where your operating system is installed. |
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| 52034 | 2002-06-03 08:48:00 | The advice already given is correct but a bit short on detail in one respect. Mention is made of setting the jumpers correctly (I assume you know what is meant by jumpers and how to set them, post back if not) but not how to do so. On most drive housings there is a little diagram or table to indicate the various jumper settings. There are at least 2 modes - master and slave , but some have a third - master with slave. The drive you boot up from is usually set as the master - in your case you would set it as master + slave if you have that option, otherwise just master. The other drive is set to slave mode. If you remove the slave at any time you will need to set the other to master if you have a 3-option system. | Guest (0) | ||
| 52035 | 2002-06-03 09:55:00 | Thanks for the help ... it all seems much clearer now! Bill |
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