[kious Legend]

i need some help with hooking up a old slave drive i follow all the right instructions but when i boot up am not getting a respond from the slave any idea's?

[T.r.i.n.i.]

You tryna boot up FROM the slave

[Mr. Marcus ™]

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[Mr. Marcus ™]

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[kious Legend]

no i was trying to boot from the master

[trinicool]

Originally Posted by kious Legend

i need some help with hooking up a old slave drive i follow all the right instructions but when i boot up am not getting a respond from the slave any idea's?

Right click My Computer > Manage > Disk Management> From here you will see your new unactive disc( just right click on it and make it active)

[kious Legend]

the thing is after i hook up the slave an turn the computer on nothing shows up just the reg boot screen no response from the hard drive

[gifted chick]

are u trying to boot from that drive?... sorry im not keen on the lingo and not sure wat exactly a slave drive does


but.. if u are tryin to boot from it try....

*do on ur own risk*

try enterin the BIOS screen at startup.. not sure wat key u press cuz evry machine is different.. anyway it will tell u the command key at startup... and from there see if u can change the boot priority blah blah

[T.r.i.n.i.]

Originally Posted by kious Legend

the thing is after i hook up the slave an turn the computer on nothing shows up just the reg boot screen no response from the hard drive

Does the computer actually boot up to the desktop?. . . Im really not sure whats going on. . .

Are you sure they are set up as master/slave (did you check the jumpers by the pins and they are in the right place

[trinicool]

Originally Posted by kious Legend

the thing is after i hook up the slave an turn the computer on nothing shows up just the reg boot screen no response from the hard drive

k start from scratch... Make sure the other harddrive (master) pin is set on master(you will see the pin and configuration on the underside of the HD..

Now for the slave HD depending if its a Sata or IDE you will need to remove the pin or set it to (Slave)

Now when you boot up go to the Bios set up (press Del or F2 when booting) Go to boot sequence and set the Master to the first boot so the PC dont try to boot from the slave first.

When you boot up you sometimes you will not see the HD in My Computer ...Go to Right Click My Computer > Manage>Disc Management and click on the new HD and make it active and you on like boil corn

[GhostStar]

Ok, first things first @ the post screen (where it does the memory checkin n all that other stuff).... do u see both HD's show up there? ... if it (secondary) doesnt could be a prob with ur cable, or HD... itry setting it to cable select... btw is it an IDE or Sata HD?

lol @ the instructions tho..cuz typically thats what u'd do..

[tranardo]

did you check the jumpers by the pins and they are in the right place and are u using the drive as a slave or master?

[Mz K]

If you're trying to boot from the second one you have to make sure that the other one isn't set as a "master" if both are set as master...some might cras (give you an error message) or certain pc will boot the first one connected from the Wire or has the proper windows install....

and that Second HD why are you trying to boot from it? to recover your files? there are other ways to do so...and another reason you might not be able to recover it is because it's corrupted as well

[kious Legend]

thanks for all the help but i solve the problem today i neede3d to change my jumpers thats all i got it to work using cable select hard drive just wanted to have things its own way lol thanks folks for the help