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I am wondering if anyone can help, I have installed a new HDD and it is larger than the master, I cannot get the computer to recognize the new drive as master! I have change the jumpers to reflect the new master drive, as well as, changing to cable select??? Any ideas? I have a Dell optiplex gx110 the new drive is a samsung the old is western digital.
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Posted 16 November 2009 - 08:42 PM
Hello.
See if this helps at all: http://www.ehow.com/...esignation.html
Also is this computer the same as the Hijackthis log you posted over here: http://www.247fixes....45-hijack-this/ ?
Please let me know.
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See if this helps at all: http://www.ehow.com/...esignation.html
Also is this computer the same as the Hijackthis log you posted over here: http://www.247fixes....45-hijack-this/ ?
Please let me know.
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Posted 16 November 2009 - 08:47 PM
I've seen this before where someone wanted to boot from a harddrive and thought that the harddrive had to be Master to do so. The Master / Slave relationship only has to do with how those two devices talk on the same wire, not really with how they relate to the rest of the system. To boot from a different harddrive you actually have to go into the BIOS and change the boot order so that the other harddrive is listed first.
What exactly are you trying to achieve? Are you able to boot to the machine?
What exactly are you trying to achieve? Are you able to boot to the machine?
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Posted 16 November 2009 - 08:54 PM
I think it depends on the system specs and perhaps the module but I remembered before that I didn't need to modify within the BIOS however, it may be "naturally" already configured that way.
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Posted 16 November 2009 - 10:35 PM
Right. I guess I just wanted to know what was really trying to be achieved. I thought maybe the user was trying to get the drive to be detected as "first" in the boot order by making it Master on the cable, but if this is a new drive then it's empty. So I was wrong. Still... What the user wants to happen doesn't make sense (to want to get the system to recognize a drive as "Master").
If the one drive that's already on there is already set as Master on the IDE channel then this new drive needs to be set as Slave if its on the same ribbon cable. Do you know what I mean?
@gordenjr : Is the new haddrive connecting to the motherboard using the same cable as the other harddrive? or are you using a completely separate IDE ribbon cable and plugging it in to a different socket on the motherboard?
If you have two harddrives on the same cable you need to have one set to Master and the other set to Slave so that they can both talk on the same cable.
If the one drive that's already on there is already set as Master on the IDE channel then this new drive needs to be set as Slave if its on the same ribbon cable. Do you know what I mean?
@gordenjr : Is the new haddrive connecting to the motherboard using the same cable as the other harddrive? or are you using a completely separate IDE ribbon cable and plugging it in to a different socket on the motherboard?
If you have two harddrives on the same cable you need to have one set to Master and the other set to Slave so that they can both talk on the same cable.
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