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| Thread ID: 108573 | 2010-04-03 02:24:00 | hdd and internet question | smithinator (15240) | Press F1 |
| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 872291 | 2010-04-03 03:44:00 | No. Thats why IDE hdd's have jumpers for master or slave | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 872292 | 2010-04-03 04:05:00 | ok thanks for all of your help ill give it a go know heres hoping it works :) thanks again | smithinator (15240) | ||
| 872293 | 2010-04-03 08:23:00 | hi i put in all of the jumpers on all my hdds but it still wont boot when i have more than one hdd connected even though i set it up correctly, also i need to turn on some things in msconfig that seem to have been deactivated but when i type it into run the msconfig window flashes up and then disappears and i dont know why | smithinator (15240) | ||
| 872294 | 2010-04-03 11:40:00 | Did you change the hdd with the OS on it to the bootdisk in the BIOS? WHAT is it saying when you try and boot from whatever hdd? WHAT are you turning on / enabling in msconfig?? Dont disable services thru there. |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 872295 | 2010-04-03 23:19:00 | the hdd im booting from is the master and the other is a slave, i didnt disable things in msconfig they were already disabled when i got the hdd but now i need to turn them back on except the window wont stay open | smithinator (15240) | ||
| 872296 | 2010-04-03 23:26:00 | But DID you MAKE SURE the bootdisk is the hdd with the OS on it (that you want to boot from). By selecting it as the bootdisk (in the BIOS), then saving the settings. Then rebooting. Just because its the master doesnt mean its the hdd with windows on it. |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 872297 | 2010-04-05 12:04:00 | if by bootdisk you mean master drive then that is what it is set to there is no bootisk option | smithinator (15240) | ||
| 872298 | 2010-04-05 12:16:00 | By bootdisk, I mean whatever hdd has windows on it (and the one you want to boot from). It doesnt HAVE to be the master one. It can also be the slave | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 872299 | 2010-04-05 13:17:00 | if by bootdisk you mean master drive then that is what it is set to there is no bootisk option The operating system you have is XP pro on an 80 gig hard drive and that boots with no other hard drives. But one presumes you also have an optical drive either a CD reader/writer or a DVD reader/writer. If you don't have an optical drive then how was Win XP pro installed? (Yes I know it can be done before anyone jumps on me.) The computer boots with the 80 gig and the optical connected with one ribbon cable does it? If so then the two other 40 gig drives should go on another ribbon cable one drive as master and other a slave. Personally I would put the 80 Gig drive on the Primary IDE output from the motherboard and jumpered as master and the optical drive on the Secondary IDE from the motherboard and also jumpered as master. The 2 x 40 gig hard drives both get jumpered as slave drives. I suspect that the jumpers on the drives are in the wrong place and hence the pc won't boot. . |
Sweep (90) | ||
| 872300 | 2010-04-05 15:53:00 | IDE provides two channels normally, Primary and Secondary. On each channel (and thus, IDE cable) you can have two drives, Master and Slave. This is a total of 4 drives (unless you add any extra PCI cards with more IDE channels) The BIOS has a boot sequence. For example, I have mine set to try floppy first, then CD drive, then a 250GB SATA hard drive. The first drive it tries that has bootable media, it will boot from, even if others later in the sequence also have bootable media. The boot sequence setup option in the BIOS usually lists the drives by model number (for hard drives) |
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