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So I woke up today...to an EMPTY hard drive/computer (pg. 3)
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| DigitalMP |
the back of your drive has a plastic jumper on the set of pins.
there's a label on the drive that says how to set the jumper for master, master w/no slave, and slave (there's also "cable select" - read on for that).
there's a second master/slave scenario - in the past it was used for very few computers, but Dell has been known to do it for most of theirs, which is called "cable select". if your computer uses cable select, you simply jumper the drive as "cable select" (also on the label), and the cable has master or slave marked on it, or 0 and 1 (for master and slave, respectively).
if you're not sure, you can look at an existing device and its label to see if it is jumpered as cable select, to rule out that option.
chances are that it is NOT cable select, but if you can't tell, and it's not a Dell, just jumper the device master or slave and you'll know when you boot when the OS is not found, or the second drive/CD drive is not detected.
if the label is unclear, you can look on the mfctr's website (simply google the model number) and find it there.
TIP: when playing with your hard drive, always make sure your data cables and power cables are plugged back in firmly, AND that you did not pull them out of the motherboard. this can play with your mind and make you think, wait it's not detected, maybe it IS cable select, wait, maybe it's NOT. wait, do i like country music? then you drink some ty beer and have sex with the neighbor's dog. not a pretty site. |
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| DigitalMP |
so, Dan, note your PC's configuration, either based on the writing on the cable (there won't be any if it's master/slave) or how the primary drive is jumpered, then jumper your second drive and hook up the data cable and an unused power cable plug.
again, it's probably master/slave, so just look on the label, jumper it, and connect it.
ALWAYS leave your case open when you start the PC up to test it. i've done this millions of times, and had to open the case again to check the jumpers and cables. not fun. especially the 5th time, when my roommate would say, if you weren't high you would have this done already. |
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| Playa24_7 |
k, so far I tryed the 3 pin combinations to put my drive to slave (as it says on the lable). when i tryed two of them, on the bios screen it said "diskboot failer, enter system disk" and the last pin combo, it didnt say that, but it didnt go past the bios screen.
So I guess i'll try the cable select pin combos and see what happens |
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| Playa24_7 |
k, these pics may help to figure out what the heck I should do lol
This is the label on the back of my frigged up drive:
This is the back of my frigged up drive:
This is my good drive which is hooked up in my computer now, alongside the other hookups for another drive:
Circled in blue is my frigged up drive, beside it on the right is my drive that runs my computer now and works. This was my attempt at hooking it up:
so, any ideas anyone? lol |
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| DigitalMP |
| now all we need is a pic of the label from your good drive ;) |
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| Playa24_7 |
| haha fack! k, give me abit |
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| Playa24_7 |
k, thats a pic of the label on the back of my good drive:
and thats the connectors on my good drive:
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| DigitalMP |
you're cable select, and this is the right setup for your ed up drive:
do you know how to get into the bios? if so, you want to make sure primary slave is set to "auto". |
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| Playa24_7 |
when it boots up do i just press F8? then it goes into the bios?
otherwise if i just let it go like this, i cant even boot into windows past the usual screen that shows all your drives and stuff |
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| DigitalMP |
It should say it right when you turn it on..."Press DEL to run setup"
It's either F1, F2, F10, or delete. |
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| Playa24_7 |
| yeah i had to go in the bios and change my boot drive to the one that works, cause it had the facked up one selected. got in, windows detected the facked up drive, but its not in my computer. i'll download one of those programs now and see what happens i guess. no idea whats NTFS or fat32 |
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| DigitalMP |
Did you make sure that both items on the primary are not set to "off"?
If you don't know which you have, I'll bet the house that you have FAT32.
NTFS is only for high-end PCs that are ordered as such, or for geeks that format their drives in that manner. Some XP Pro machines might have that file system, but it's not likely. |
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