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Hardware => Hardware => Topic started by: sinisthesia on June 27, 2007, 03:11:15 PM

Title: problems installing a second hard drive
Post by: sinisthesia on June 27, 2007, 03:11:15 PM

Here's the setup: primary master and slave are optical devices. I have my original IDE HDD set up as secondary master. I installed a second IDE hard disk as a slave. This disk came from another computer with the same setup, so I know it works. When I boot my pc, it stops at the ASUS motherboard bios screen, unless I enter the BIOS menu. While the BIOS is booting, it doesn't detect the new slave and SMART reports that my master drive is bad. I've checked both drives out and they work. When the slave isn't plugged in the master SMART status is ok, and the slave works in the pc it came from. Help please?

Also I'm not completely sure of the jumper settings. It worked as a slave previously, so I assumed it is set properly. Might that not be the case?

Title: Re: problems installing a second hard drive
Post by: The Saviour on June 27, 2007, 03:30:20 PM

Try setting the jumpers on both drives using the jumpers for cable select to see if this works for ya.

Title: Re: problems installing a second hard drive
Post by: patio on June 27, 2007, 05:07:56 PM

Hard drives should be Primary devices...you are just allowing the BIOS to confuse Windows this way...