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05-22-2004, 02:20 AM
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Slave Drive malfunctioning
I have a functioning hard-drive (7GB), and recently attached a slave drive (40GB). I had the slave drive working properly for a few days. Then today I turn on the computer and the computer does not recognize the slave drive. It is as though it is not there. I thought it was just the cable, so I bought a new IDE cable. This didn't work. The rest of the computer is functioning properly, including the primary drive. The slave drive is brand new, direct for Western Digital and I am running Windows XP Professional. Any help in solving this problem would be greatly appreciated.
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05-22-2004, 02:24 AM
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Barefoot on the Moon!
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Is the power plug on the slave drive plugged in all the way?
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05-22-2004, 03:26 AM
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What type of IDE cable did you put in, and how did you jumper the drives?
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05-24-2004, 01:08 PM
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The power supply is plugged in fine, and the cable is a standard IDE Cable that connects two hard-drives to the motherboard. The drive was functioning fine for a few days, then one day it did not recognize the drive at all.
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05-24-2004, 01:09 PM
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The jumper is set normal, primary to primary position and slave to slave.
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05-24-2004, 01:11 PM
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I am going to reverse the order of the drives to see if the hard-drive is malfunctioning. Any help will definitely be appreciated.
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05-25-2004, 04:53 AM
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Are both of the drives recognized in BIOS?
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05-25-2004, 08:44 AM
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Try putting each drive one a seperate IDE cable with no other drives attaced.
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05-25-2004, 10:39 AM
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Shiro Usagi
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Are you using a 40 wire IDE or 80 wire IDE cable? The 80 wire IDE cable has a finer surface texture and the connectors are 3 different colors (blue, black and gray). If you are using a 80 wire IDE cable, you have to set the drive jumpers to CS (cable select).
Can you post your complete system specs including the brand and model of all the parts...especially the motherboard.  Cricket
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05-26-2004, 12:43 PM
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I changed the jumper settings to cable select, which seemed to keep the drive functioning long enough to run the Diagnostics Software. An error message came back saying the drive needs to be replaced. Thanks for the help guys.
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