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| Thread ID: 87536 | 2008-02-25 09:03:00 | HDD gone bad, slave drive taking over ?? | limepile (96) | Press F1 |
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| 643410 | 2008-02-25 09:03:00 | Have a Seagate 250 gig hdd in external drive that has been playing up. Its a year old but its only been used about 6 times to back up files, the rest of the time its been disconnected from the power and in storage, not dropped or damp etc. I know that sometimes its the casing that is faulty, so I removed this one an installed the drive in my computer (I want to retrieve the docs in case the drive is bad ) but when its installed , I get a POST, then at the next screen where devices are checked i get "Disc boot failure ", and there is no master or slave recognized , unplug the old external drive and I boot up as normal .Any ideas ? | limepile (96) | ||
| 643411 | 2008-02-25 09:07:00 | Sometimes when put a hdd in a case, it can muck up the boot order in the BIOS. Did u check the BIOS, to see which hdd it was booting from? Also make sure both are on AUTO in the BIOS, then save the settings then reboot Also make sure you jumper them properly. Even tho you've connected both to an IDE connector, if you dont jumper both, you'll have probs. |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 643412 | 2008-02-25 09:14:00 | Thanks for the fast reply Speedy!! I'm not sure how to jumper them. I had to remove a HDD to install this one, in fact i regularly swap drives around with no trouble. In the BIOS it just has one hdd to boot from, which has a serial st00038 or somesuch..how do I tell which it is. |
limepile (96) | ||
| 643413 | 2008-02-25 09:28:00 | Are they IDE hdds or SATA ? (if theyre SATA's they dont have jumpers). And if theyre SATA 2 hdd's (and the mobo only supports SATA 1), you have to flick the jumper on the SATA so it reverts to SATA 1. Since SATA 1 systems cant read SATA 2 hdd's. If its IDE look on the back of it (you'll see MA SL CS etched on it). If theres 2 hdds in the case (and if both have something on them, and theyre both IDE). One of them has to be jumpered to MA and the other jumpered to SL Then (depending on whether theyre on the Primary or Secondary IDE connection), you have to go into the BIOS under the IDE menu and put both on AUTO. Then save the settings then reboot. Also if its SATA, the power connector and the DATA cable HAVE to be connected to the mobo header. |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 643414 | 2008-02-25 09:29:00 | ok, my other drives have a jumper on the first set of pins ( on the left side of the 8 pin set), this drive has them on the second set, good idea to move them ? IDE drives | limepile (96) | ||
| 643415 | 2008-02-25 09:32:00 | Like I said if theyre labelled MA SL and CS. One has to be on MA and the other on SL. If theyre connected to the same IDE connection, on the mobo |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 643416 | 2008-02-25 09:46:00 | Being Seagate you can set the Slave by simply removing the jumpers completely, it will automatically go to slave. The boot drive or Master as Speedy has mention MUST Be Set To Master (www.imagef1.net.nz) <<< Thats a 160Gb drive, but same thing. Some HD's dont have the lettering that Speedy mentions, some do - But a IDE Optical drive will have the lettering. You must also as speedy said make sure the boot order in the BIOS is set correctly, other wise it will try to boot from the slave. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 643417 | 2008-02-25 10:00:00 | Also, MAKE SURE (If the IDE cable youre using has a blue connector on one end of the cable), that the blue connector is connected to the mobo IDE connector. NOT to the hard drive/s Otherwise the BIOS wont see them. If the BIOS doesnt detect it, Windows wont either. |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 643418 | 2008-02-25 10:25:00 | Thank you guys, I took my own advice for a change and used google to find out which way the jumpers were numbered. Then had to have a good poke around in the bios to find the auto settings. Disk checked and all seems to be ok so far. Great to learn something new, and hope this helps someone else. Thanks again. |
limepile (96) | ||
| 643419 | 2008-02-25 19:59:00 | Also, MAKE SURE (If the IDE cable youre using has a blue connector on one end of the cable), that the blue connector is connected to the mobo IDE connector. NOT to the hard drive/s Otherwise the BIOS wont see them. Really? I have one of mine back to front and it sees it just fine. |
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