I am adding a secondary hard drive to a new machine to verify that the images (pics) on the drive are still there. with an existing hard drive and win2000 installed. When attempting to boot the system now does not recognize either drive. I set the jumpers for the main drive to master and the secondary to slave. Any ideas are appreciated.
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system does not recognize hard drive
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I assume the system still boots if only the original master is connected...
Is your IDE cable one of the new ones with three different color ide connectors (usually blue, grey and black)? If so, the blue connector (sometimes also red, yellow, green or orange) goes to the motherboard, the middle connector (usually grey) goes to the slave drive and the end connector (usually black) goes to the master drive. Hooking up the master to the middle connector and the slave to the end connector can screww things up.
If the drives are hooked up correctly, then the bios should identify the drives for you. If the bios does not identify the drives correctly then Windows won't either.
Les Gray
Is your IDE cable one of the new ones with three different color ide connectors (usually blue, grey and black)? If so, the blue connector (sometimes also red, yellow, green or orange) goes to the motherboard, the middle connector (usually grey) goes to the slave drive and the end connector (usually black) goes to the master drive. Hooking up the master to the middle connector and the slave to the end connector can screww things up.
If the drives are hooked up correctly, then the bios should identify the drives for you. If the bios does not identify the drives correctly then Windows won't either.
Les Gray
You could also get another cable and hook up the second drive to the Secondary master if your CD drive is not using it. Be sure to reset the drive Jumpers to master if you try this. If it works there and Lesgray's advice didnt help then you have pretty much narrowed it down to a faulty Primary IDE cable.
Yeah, Speedy58 is right. KISS principle. Change the $2 cable first before beating your head bloody against the wall, 'cause you surely will if thats the problem.
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