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Have a SATA hard drive that went bad in desktop, want to use new SATA drive as master and old as slave so I can retrieve data from old drive how do I accomplish this. Have connected nut only shows one harddrive
The first point to address is that SATA drives do NOT exercise "master/slave priority pin settings like Ide drives do. They are prioritized by virtue of what sata port you attach them to IE:pot "0","1" etc depending on the number of sata port the computer has available. I am not certain (as i don't use sata very much) but it may be necessary to enter the BIOS to enable the detection of more than one sata drive.Others may wish to comment on that aspect. Here is an article i found for you that explains sata rather well.truenorth