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Slave Hard Drive

Luke T.

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I installed the hard drive from my old computer onto my new computer as a slave. I jumpered the new computer's hard drive as "cable select" and the old hard drive as "cable select." This seemed to be the only jumper configuration which enabled my computer to boot up. All other configurations caused booting problems.

The old hard drive is on the slave connector and the new drive is on the master connector.

The computer boots up just like always, but the slave drive is invisible. "My Computer" doesn't show it. The "Add Hardware" control panel option doesn't even see it and says everything that is connected to the computer is working fine.

I have two years of photos on that old hard drive. I can't freaking get to them.

Help?!?!?
 
*smacks head*

Never mind. I hadn't connected a power connector to the slave drive!

DOH!
 
Usually it don't boot at all if you have an unpowered drive on the IDE cable with the hard drive. But I usually set Master/Slave explicitly.
 
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