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Help... Please?

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Porphyria

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About a week ago, I was partitioning a drive of mine to run linux..s omething went awfully wrong, or had been going awfully wrong for the past month ( probably this option.. sigh ). Well, Things went astray, and my hard drive's boot partition is messed up, etc etc ( or so I believe ... by the fact that when I restarted it simply sat there after the bios ). So, I'm on a newer computer now, and I transfered my old computers dvd drive, etc etc over to this case, and then I decided to see what went wrong with my HD. I took my 40 gig from the busted machine, and put it in this.. connected the IDE , p controlls.. and, now when I boot, my bios gives me the error that it can't find either of my drives( note: this is specifically when both the good HD from this new case and the bad damaged one are put in ). When just the normal hd from this case is in, and the IDEs and P-controls to my bad one are taken off, everything is smooth and it works. Similarly, when I just boot with my damaged 40 gig, I get a blue-screen after the bios, but it still finds the hard drives.

Is this a problem with my IDE cables.. or what? Please help.. I could use those extra 40 gigs.
 
:( I'm new to this forum... so I don't really know whether I can "bump" this.. but you guys sure are active.. it's already at the bottom.
 
Originally posted by Porphyria
:( I'm new to this forum... so I don't really know whether I can "bump" this.. but you guys sure are active.. it's already at the bottom.
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don't dispair, sometimes teh Forum throws you a punch in the form of no replies.

well, here's a reply (albeit not much of one):
if i were you, i'd list the manufacturer of your HDD here

i'd then go to the HDD manufacturer's website and check for a diagnostic tool.

after which, if it A)doesn't have one or B)gives you an error report / fails, i'd call the HDD manufacturer's 1-800 service number

after which, if you don't find out what to do, i'd RMA it.


hope this helps...maybe try some friends' IDE cables? but i doubt it's them, as your new computer's HDD works fine on its own...
 
The 40 G that works is Maxtor, and the 40 G that doesnt is Western Digitals..

I'm just perplexed as to why it won't be found when I plug it in as a slave to my 40 gig?

And even when I plug it in as master and switch, it can't be found.

And then when I plug it in alone it gets found, but I get a bluescreen.
 
if its a western digital try taking the jumper completely out and booting

also you can try to just hook up the bad 40 gig and either try to reformat (if it will even accept a disk) or mess with the boot options in your bios
 
If you disconnect the suspect drive, the original drive in the backup PC works again, right? Did you maybe forget to set the jumper to "slave" on the drive you transplanted into the other PC?
 
Arg.. how do I Set it to "slave"? (Other than switching the IDE cables?.. sorry)
 
On your drive, you should see something like [ : : : : ] one of the pins should be covered with a white cover clip.

on the top you should see some seeting diagrams.

look for master with slave, with that u should have master, and slave, and maybe cable sllect. set it up so that it is covering the pins shown in the master with drive config (assuming you have a hdd with an os, then the wd 40 gig,)

that should work
 
Well.. I just put my case all back together again after installing another fan.. so I'll try tomorrow. I got new IDE cables.. that wasn't it. But these are the newer high-air ones :). I don't think I remember seeing any pinwhite slip.. though

EDIT: I see what you mean, I just took a look at some old 20 gig I have lying around. Yes, I'll do that.. so should I have the OS set to "master" and the other set to slavE?
 
Set to master the drive that you wish to boot from. Be sure to set slave on the other one (when two are connected on the same IDE cable).

You might also check that you haven't reversed the cable, if the cable you are using isn't keyed.


:)

-Skystalker
 
There should be three options. Slave, Master, Master with Slave Present. The are all pretty self explanitory.
 
Thank you guys SOOO MUCH

*SHRIEK* *JUMPS WITH JOY* *OMG HAS HIS PORN*..

Foolish me didn't set his Western to slave! It was on the wrong pin :). Omfg it works. I love you all. I am in your debt. (I was just about to take it to compusa... sigh)

My porn, programs, everything.. BACK! YES!! My precious..
 
Ummm.... glad you got your porn back (!?).

Maybe time to find a nice christian girlfriend.... :)

-Skystalker
 
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