Removing a Secondary Hard Drive

[UncleAaron]

Perhaps the motherboard and/or the psu just died?

I hooked the secondary drive back up, and CMOS now sees both hard drives, and the CD/DVD drive.

[Salmon Trout]

And you disconnect it and everything happens like before?

[UncleAaron]

Replace the ribbon cable with a new one.
Then re-boot...enter Setup and run the HDD detector in the BIOS...

My jumpers look like this:

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The bold colons are the ones that have jumpers. Should I 1) move them; 2) leave them alone. Could this be the problem??

[UncleAaron]

And you disconnect it and everything happens like before?

Could you please use quotes so I know what info you are referring to? Thanks?

[Salmon Trout]

Could you please use quotes so I know what info you are referring to? Thanks?

I considered quoting unnecessary since my post immediately followed yours, but if it makes things easier for you to comprehend...


You:

I hooked the secondary drive back up, and CMOS now sees both hard drives, and the CD/DVD drive.

Me, immediately after:

And you disconnect it and everything happens like before?

[Salmon Trout]

My jumpers look like this:

:::::

The bold colons are the ones that have jumpers. Should I 1) move them; 2) leave them alone. Could this be the problem??

Do you mean that both drives are jumpered identically?

Drive makers sometimes use different schemes; the label on the drive should make things clear. What brand(s) and model numbers are the drives? You show 5 colons... do you have 10 or 9 pin jumper blocks, because your diagram looks like 9 pin jumpered for cable select.

THis is a Western Digital jumper diagram - (WD have special settings if only 1 drive is on the cable)

[UncleAaron]

Do you mean that both drives are jumpered identically?

Drive makers sometimes use different schemes; the label on the drive should make things clear. What brand(s) and model numbers are the drives? You show 5 colons... do you have 10 or 9 pin jumper blocks, because your diagram looks like 9 pin jumpered for cable select.

THis is a Western Digital jumper diagram - (WD have special settings if only 1 drive is on the cable)

The secondary has a fixed jumper on the top portion of the jumper, and the primary is the one shown in my diagram (cable select).

I have another question? As far as the cable hook up. On the end where you hook the cable to the drives--the cable I'm using has a gray connector and a black connector. The black connector is at the end of the cable, and the gray connector is on the inside of the cable connectors. The primary is hooked to the black and the secondary is hooked to the gray one. Which one should I use to get the computer to recognize only one of the drives, so it will boot into WinXP without the second hard drive?

As far as the quoting...the only reason I asked that was at the beginning there were 2 or 3 people commenting and I only wanted to avoid confusion. I wasn't trying to be a smart a**. Sorry if I came off the wrong way.

[patio]

Take over Salmon...too many cooks here so i'll bow out.
AAron you're in good hands...

[UncleAaron]

Thanks patio!

[Salmon Trout]

If you have a 40 wire cable then the master is the middle connector. With an 80 wire cable, blue/grey/black, the drive attached to the remote end - black - connector is master and the drive attached to the intermediate - grey - ("gray" in the US) connector is the slave, and the blue end goes in the motherboard.  I would suggest changing the single drive to the "single" postion, and seeing what happens then.

[UncleAaron]

I GOT IT 

When I had the drive out I noticed on top of the drive, that it shouldn't have ANY jumpers for a single drive system. I took the 80-pin and re-inserted the 40-pin and voila!!!

Thanks for the help from patio and  Salmon Trout.

Hope you guys have a Happy Memorial Day.

[Salmon Trout]

We don't have Memorial Day where I live, but I'll have a nice day anyhow, and thanks for the wish. Glad you are up and running again!