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MuscleBoy
07-20-2005, 02:46 PM
my laptop decided to take a crap on me. i bought a 44 to 40 pin drive adapter (http://shop.store.yahoo.com/insidecomputer/la2tode3hadr.html) to try and get files off of it. problem is, when i plug it into the slave spot on the cable, BIOS wont recognize it. when i unplug the power from the master drive, the BIOS picks up the laptop drive as a master. but thats no good, obviously, cuz the fucker wont boot. the 3.5 hard drive is correctly jumpered to master.

i'm at my wits end with this thing. any ideas?
Dark Ember
07-20-2005, 02:50 PM
Maybe try making the 3.5" drive a slave, and hooking up the laptop drive as master.
MuscleBoy
07-20-2005, 02:56 PM
ja, but will winders try to boot off of the master? the laptop drive is physically undamaged but windows seems to be corrupted to hell.
Discostu2120
07-20-2005, 03:28 PM
The 2.5" drive will only work as the master. Put the 3.5" drive in as a slave and then go into your bios and set the boot drive to be the slave.
mobiux
07-20-2005, 03:55 PM
or put the laptop drive on instead of your cd.
then copy the files to your boot drive
MuscleBoy
07-20-2005, 06:11 PM
i put the 2.5 on the secondary IDE cable. started right up, windows went into CHKDSK and five minutes later the drive was fixed.

thanks for the help guys.
The_Mage18
07-20-2005, 07:18 PM
The 2.5" drive will only work as the master. Put the 3.5" drive in as a slave and then go into your bios and set the boot drive to be the slave.

Incorrect. Laptop drives can be jumpered as slaves but you need a micro jumper (usually one from a SCSI drive works) to do so. The last four pins that the adaptor does not plug in to are the pins that set Master.Slave. The two pins closest to where the adaptor plugs into are what you have to short (vertically of course) to set the drive as slave.

Most laptop drives also have this marked on the label and some even come with the jumper in a spare position.
MuscleBoy
07-21-2005, 12:20 AM
Incorrect. Laptop drives can be jumpered as slaves but you need a micro jumper (usually one from a SCSI drive works) to do so. The last four pins that the adaptor does not plug in to are the pins that set Master.Slave. The two pins closest to where the adaptor plugs into are what you have to short (vertically of course) to set the drive as slave.

Most laptop drives also have this marked on the label and some even come with the jumper in a spare position.
yeah, i noticed those extra four pins and i was like, wtf, did i buy the wrong adapter. good thing the 2nd IDE cable thing worked or i'd be shorting it with a gum wrapper or a guitar string.
Discostu2120
07-21-2005, 08:09 AM
Incorrect. Laptop drives can be jumpered as slaves but you need a micro jumper (usually one from a SCSI drive works) to do so. The last four pins that the adaptor does not plug in to are the pins that set Master.Slave. The two pins closest to where the adaptor plugs into are what you have to short (vertically of course) to set the drive as slave.

Most laptop drives also have this marked on the label and some even come with the jumper in a spare position.

Damn, I knew someone would call me on that. Oh well, I still think it would be easiest just to set it as the master since changing the boot order in the bios will probably be alot easier than searching for a mini jumper off a scsi drive.
The_Mage18
07-22-2005, 08:10 AM
Damn, I knew someone would call me on that. Oh well, I still think it would be easiest just to set it as the master since changing the boot order in the bios will probably be alot easier than searching for a mini jumper off a scsi drive.

:D You get a free STFU slap to use on me next time.