Hard Drive Detection
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Hard Drive Detection
Word up, the name's Kison
Anywho,
I just bought a new Seagate hard drive, with 250 Gigabytes of space. I planned on installing it as a slave drive so that I could put any large documents, media files, zips, or anything else on it so that if I ever needed to reinstall my master drive(40 gig Maxtor), I wouldn't have to use CDs or a network.
Anyway, I tried doing just that. I plugged the slave IDE into the drive, the power as well, and told me there was no OS running on my drive. I go into my BIOS, and it tells me that the Seagate(new) drive was the slave, as it should be, but the Maxtor(old) was not detected. I check the cords, they look good, so I reboot. It still can't find it. I tried hooking up the Maxtor by itself again, and realized that even though it has the MASTER plugged into it, it was coming up as SLAVE. Hello? McFly?
I did some other tests. I plugged the Seagate(new one) alone in as master, and it properly showed up as master. The seagate alone in slave comes up properly as slave. The Maxtor alone in master comes up, as I said before, as slave. When the Maxtor is in slave alone, it doesn't show up at all. I tried using a spare IDE cord with similar setups, and they all matched.
Now I really don't know what's going on here. It looks like this is the Maxtor drive's fault, as the Seagate seems to work as it should be. A friend told me to just mess around a bit and eventually it'd get it right. Well I tried different combos for about 2 hours and nothing has been accomplished but adding more confusion into my little brain. Wink Additionally I partitioned the Seagate using a Windows XP SP2 CD and used the NFTP(I think that's it) format before retrying to boot both drives.
Anywho, if anyone knows anything I could try, I'd appreciate it.
-Teh Kison!
Anywho,
I just bought a new Seagate hard drive, with 250 Gigabytes of space. I planned on installing it as a slave drive so that I could put any large documents, media files, zips, or anything else on it so that if I ever needed to reinstall my master drive(40 gig Maxtor), I wouldn't have to use CDs or a network.
Anyway, I tried doing just that. I plugged the slave IDE into the drive, the power as well, and told me there was no OS running on my drive. I go into my BIOS, and it tells me that the Seagate(new) drive was the slave, as it should be, but the Maxtor(old) was not detected. I check the cords, they look good, so I reboot. It still can't find it. I tried hooking up the Maxtor by itself again, and realized that even though it has the MASTER plugged into it, it was coming up as SLAVE. Hello? McFly?
I did some other tests. I plugged the Seagate(new one) alone in as master, and it properly showed up as master. The seagate alone in slave comes up properly as slave. The Maxtor alone in master comes up, as I said before, as slave. When the Maxtor is in slave alone, it doesn't show up at all. I tried using a spare IDE cord with similar setups, and they all matched.
Now I really don't know what's going on here. It looks like this is the Maxtor drive's fault, as the Seagate seems to work as it should be. A friend told me to just mess around a bit and eventually it'd get it right. Well I tried different combos for about 2 hours and nothing has been accomplished but adding more confusion into my little brain. Wink Additionally I partitioned the Seagate using a Windows XP SP2 CD and used the NFTP(I think that's it) format before retrying to boot both drives.
Anywho, if anyone knows anything I could try, I'd appreciate it.
-Teh Kison!
well, how about this. did you try jsut keeping the maxator connected and seeing if you can hear the hard drive a little (i have a very quiet hard drive,but it if you try,you will hear it) if you do hear,its probably dead
If you hear sounds i think that it may probably be working and there is a jumper issuse. make sure you check that.
I'm not seeing anything on my BIOS(Award) about jumper settings or cable select. I see options for the different IDE drives(master, slave for primary/secondary), just nothing about that. This is, of course, assuming this is a BIOS option.
No sound, my fans are loud enough that I don't really hear anything, and the drive is silent(I've never heard it)
No sound, my fans are loud enough that I don't really hear anything, and the drive is silent(I've never heard it)
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Kison tells no one what he wishes to keep silent! 
I haven't looked yet. Thanks, though, I had a feeling after reading up on google a bit that it was something with the hardware, but couldn't find anything that gave in-depth explanations on what the jumper actually was.
I'll post back once I try it out.
I haven't looked yet. Thanks, though, I had a feeling after reading up on google a bit that it was something with the hardware, but couldn't find anything that gave in-depth explanations on what the jumper actually was.
I'll post back once I try it out.
Word up, tis me again!
I take it that I'm looking for those 8 pins between the power and the IDE plug? Ok I have that down, but what do I actually DO to change it? They look like 8 pins but there is this little black piece of what I am guessing is plasic that surrounds two of them(Maxtor goes vertical and Seagate goes horizontal), if you even understand what I meant by that(I suck at explaining sometimes).
-Kison teh Newb
I take it that I'm looking for those 8 pins between the power and the IDE plug? Ok I have that down, but what do I actually DO to change it? They look like 8 pins but there is this little black piece of what I am guessing is plasic that surrounds two of them(Maxtor goes vertical and Seagate goes horizontal), if you even understand what I meant by that(I suck at explaining sometimes).
-Kison teh Newb