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ebridge21

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    Can't get SATA drive up as slave
    « on: July 13, 2006, 03:26:23 PM »
    I have two ports on my Mother board,. Sata1, Sata2.. I have a hard drive that I pulled out of another computer that I want to get running as a slave, so I can pull some files off. I can see the Hard drive in the Disk manager but in has to Drive letter or partition.  The drive is a WD2500JD, Its one of the older SATA drives that has jumpers on it. I moved the jumpers to every posible setting. Still I can never actually view the files.

    Can anyone help please thanks
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    Re: Can't get SATA drive up as slave
    « Reply #1 on: July 13, 2006, 03:27:53 PM »
    What is the file format of the drive? Is it seen correctly in the BIOS? What is the operating system? What is the model of the drive? How are the jumpers on both drives set now?

    Details are important to any meaningful resolution.
    « Last Edit: July 13, 2006, 03:28:42 PM by GX1_Man »
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    ebridge21

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      Re: Can't get SATA drive up as slave
      « Reply #2 on: July 13, 2006, 03:35:33 PM »
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      What is the file format of the drive? Is it seen correctly in the BIOS? What is the operating system? What is the model of the drive? How are the jumpers on both drives set now?

      Details are important to any meaningful resolution.


      NTFS... BIOS is set to Auto detect Secondary HDD.... its a WD2500JD.... The primary Disk has no jumpers(Dell HDD)...The Western Digital has a jumper that are currently on pins 7-8.
      Thanks.
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      GX1_Man

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      Re: Can't get SATA drive up as slave
      « Reply #3 on: July 13, 2006, 03:38:37 PM »
      And what are those pins supposed to set it up as?
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      ebridge21

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        Re: Can't get SATA drive up as slave
        « Reply #4 on: July 13, 2006, 03:41:46 PM »
        Doesn't really say in the manual... (no help). I pretty much just got fed up.. and started moving the jumper around.
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        Re: Can't get SATA drive up as slave
        « Reply #5 on: July 13, 2006, 04:01:40 PM »
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        panboy



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          Re: Can't get SATA drive up as slave
          « Reply #6 on: July 14, 2006, 07:15:02 AM »
          My SATA Drive has some jumpers, but its for setting its max speed .

          There is no Master Slave in SATA
          its One port One Device. Period.

          Those jumpers might be for data speed on your drive as well, and you may need Drivers , for some of the older drives
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          ebridge21

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            Re: Can't get SATA drive up as slave
            « Reply #7 on: July 14, 2006, 12:59:30 PM »
            Yea.. ok..well the drive is up and I can see it in Disk manager... but it was not assigned a drive letter... So I can't open it... Any fixes?
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              Re: Can't get SATA drive up as slave
              « Reply #8 on: July 14, 2006, 04:44:45 PM »
              In disk management can you not just right click and  click Change Drive Letter?

              Dose Disk management show the disk as active?
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