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| 377026 | 2005-07-31 09:14:00 | I'm sorry, that table didn't come out too well. Try again, rotating it to vertical. Jumper--------------------J50 Master/Single--------------On Slave----------------------Off |
RoyG (7768) | ||
| 377027 | 2005-07-31 10:47:00 | Right. If you look closely, the circuit board is labelled J50 next to the jumper. | Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 377028 | 2005-07-31 11:33:00 | Yes just copy and paste your files etc to your new drive. I had to do this the other day for a friend who had D/L some DVD files but didn't have a DVD writer, which I have. We just disconnected his H/D, changed the jumpers, and hooked it up to my comp and copied and pasted the files across. Trevor :) |
Trev (427) | ||
| 377029 | 2005-07-31 12:43:00 | Provided you are happy with the way the old 8GB drive is performing there is no reason why you shouldn't simply replace the 6GB slave drive in your new cptr with the 8GB one. Switch off the cptr then swap the drives, having set the J50 jumper to Slave as you have acknowledged above. As confirmation, most HDDs have a sticker on them showing the jumper settings and often having a diagram to help identify the jumper. Restart the cptr and during startup press the key required (displayed on-screen early in bootup, usually DEL or F1) to divert to BIOS setup. Assuming the BIOS has HDD autodetect it should correctly identify the specs of the new slave. Select Save Settings and continue with bootup. Windows should recognise the new drive and assign it as D:. All files on it should be accessible straight away, (although as someone else has pointed out some programmes may not run), and your data especially should be available. There should be no need to copy your files to the C: drive then back to the 6GB unless you want to for some reason. Your original C: drive on the new cptr would still be set as the boot drive so there would be no confusion as to which Windows version would boot. If you ever want to boot from Windows on the slave drive you would need to set that drive as the Primary Partition using Fdisk (this may require making the 8GB drive the Master and changing the existing drive to Slave. HTH |
Robin S_ (86) | ||
| 377030 | 2005-07-31 21:58:00 | I finally located the Jumper Settings on the Maxtor site. As assumed, the Slave position is with no jumper. But I noticed that my HD is presently jumpered as "Cable Select with CLJ". There is also a jumper position marked "Slave with CLJ". In view of the fact that "CLJ" (whatever that may be) is involved in the current setting should I select this jumper? Or simply let it be a straightforward Slave? Roy |
RoyG (7768) | ||
| 377031 | 2005-07-31 23:23:00 | CLJ is a cylinder limitation setting which limits the available drive capacity to 32GB. This setting is used if the BIOS does not recognise drives larger than 32GB. | Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 377032 | 2005-07-31 23:49:00 | You could slave it to your CD drive, then you would have three HD's | Rob99 (151) | ||
| 377033 | 2005-08-01 00:47:00 | You didn't say which of your 3 HDDs is set to Cable Select with CLJ - which one is it? Sorting this point out may be important. IIRC the Cable Select (usually marked CS at the jumper) option, before the days of CLJ at least, required the use of a Cable Select data cable between the drive and the controller card, and that this cable used either one more or one fewer strands than a standard data cable. If you use the CS setting without the appropriate cable you may strike problems. Hopefully one of the techos will see this and authoritatively expand/correct. |
Robin S_ (86) | ||
| 377034 | 2006-02-23 20:27:00 | I have a similar situation, where I have a computer running Win 98 with a 20.5 gig master and a 13.6 gig slave. I have another 60 gig hd that I would like to jumper as slave and install in place of the 13.6 gig slave, in order to recover some files. The 60 gig was used as master in another computer, but that computer would not boot, I think because of some corrupted windows system files. All these hd's are Western Digital. Any tips or guidance on how to accomplish this would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, HJK |
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