Using 2 Hard Drives

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eLus1ve

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This is quiet a simple question but is every Hard drives compatible to run as master and slave? I've ran 2 hard drives before 1 being a 37 GB 5400 RPM, and the other being a 6gb 5400 RPM. Now I have a 40 GB 7200RPM as master and a 20GB 5400 RPM for slave, and I've set the jumper settings correctly. When I try to load it up, I get a boot disk failure. Am I missing something here? By the way the 20GB already has win98 but I need to transfer some files before I reformat it. :rolleyes:

P.S - Does each power cables have to be plug in to specific hardwares? Such as P4 have to be plugged into the Master HD?
 
Originally posted by eLus1ve
This is quiet a simple question but is every Hard drives compatible to run as master and slave? I've ran 2 hard drives before 1 being a 37 GB 5400 RPM, and the other being a 6gb 5400 RPM. Now I have a 40 GB 7200RPM as master and a 20GB 5400 RPM for slave, and I've set the jumper settings correctly. When I try to load it up, I get a boot disk failure. Am I missing something here? By the way the 20GB already has win98 but I need to transfer some files before I reformat it. :rolleyes:

P.S - Does each power cables have to be plug in to specific hardwares? Such as P4 have to be plugged into the Master HD?
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There's definitely no preference to power cables.
A little confused here, which drive are you trying to boot from?
The 20GB since it has Win98 or does the 40GB have an OS too?
 
I'm already using the 40 GB with WinXP and I'm trying to add the 20 GB as my slave. Sorry for the confusion. :rolleyes:
 
Ok, I just wasn't really sure if you were trying to boot from a slave or not.
Getting a boot disk failure usually means your drives aren't being detected by the BIOS. Watch the screen when your machine POSTs to see what drives it detects.
Hrm. So have you tried them on the other chain? Different cable? The usual :)
What about each drive with a different device as slave or master? like an optical drive to see if that gets detected.
 
check the BIOS and make sure the boot drive is the correct one.
 
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