Looking for a laptop slave jumper for hard drive 1

[mrbreeze68]

I am trying to connect my son's laptop hard drive to my pc with an adapter, but when the pc boots, it doesn't see the laptop hard drive. I assumed that it was because the laptop is set up to be the master, but my SATA drive overrides this. I attempted to use a pc hard drive jumper, but it is too big. Does anyone know where I can find a smaller jumper?

 

[electronicsfreak]

Sata does not use jumpers for master/slave. Is this hard drive showing in the bios? What windows is on the laptop hard drive and what windows is on the computer your booting from?

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[acewarlock]

Is the drive spinning?

 

[mrbreeze68]

@electronicsfreak: No, the drive is not showing up in bios, and I am running winxp on both systems.

@acewarlock: yes, the drive is spinning.

I am not sure I worded my question correctly. Are there jumpers available for sale that are small enough to fit a laptop hard drive, and if so, where would I purchase them?


Thanks.

 

[nctechno]

Most computer stores will have these jumpers for sale. Be sure to establish the correct location to install this jumper to set the drive to slave or master. Google the make and model of your drive for this information. Furthermore, make sure that you enable both IDE channels to make sure your son's laptop drive is accessible to the system.

 

[mrbreeze68]

Thanks, nctechno, I will look up the info.