Hello , i was wondering if you can

[c7studios]

Hello , i was wondering if you can help me!! I have two drives! Well the other night my computer crashed when i tried to reformat c and reinstall window on it. Well I needed a new harddrive anyway, so i bought a new drive. I installed it , then after i got windows up and running I added the second drive to my computer. It had alot of saved info on it. Well now i can't get the new drive to open and i can't look in it. I have a program that came with my drive to diagnose drives and it says it is fine. But when i click on d: in windows it says "A device on the system is not funtioning" do you have any ideas?? thanks Johnny Chandler
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[osuman]

It sounds like maybe you forgot to change the jumpers on the drives. If you installed a new one then it was most likely jumpered as the master. Then when you added the other one back in it was also jumpered as a master. This causes problems. You need to pull you drives out and make sure to set their jumpers correctly. The master is the one that you plug into the end of the cable. The slave is the one that plugs into the middle of the cable. The drives may have jumper diagrams on them so that you can set it correctly. Otherwise, go to the manfacturers webpage for this information. If you need more help with how to jumper things let us know. Make sure that these settings are correct first.
Good luck.