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Hard drive help

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Dano905

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I have a Chaintech 7nif2 motherboard, xp2800 cpu, 2 sticks of 512 pc2700 kingston memory, wd 80gig and 20 gig hd. The problem is that I removed the 20 gig and the system would not reboot, it would just hang after the memory check. I was planning on reformating anyway so I thought this might fix the problem, however it did not, fdisk detects an error in the drive, but if I put the slave back in the fdisk detects the drive and lets me format and install to the drive. What is the problem and is there a way to fix? Any help would be apreciated.
 
WD drives are a little different in their jumper settings. They need a jumper to be a master (with slave) but you need to remove the jumper for it to be a master (without slave).
 
Your boot file could be fubar or you just don't have the jumper setting set correctly. You may have to do a total format, try fdisk.


Caliche
 
I would lean more toward a jumper setting issue. Some drives require different settings if they are master only, or master with a slave.

Also, look in the bios settings to see if the drive is being id'd properly there.

don
 
They are right.

If that WD is the only thing on the IDE channel, the correct setting is no jumper at all.

Pull it out and you should be good to go!
 
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