My XP system has two hard drives, master and slave, but I recently removed the slave so I could store a few files from another Windows XP PC. When I reconnected the slave back to my system and try importing it, it gives me an internal error and the volume doesn't even appear but according to device manager, the HD should be working properly. I still need the files on this hard drive. Please help
I dont understand. You took out the slave to store a few files where? After you took out the slave drive did you touch its jumper? (jumper is the little white piece behind the hdd next to the ide connection). If you did simply pop it out and put it back on "slave". This goes for your master as well but set it to "master". Next, get ONE ide cable and connect the end side (usually blue) to the motherboard. After youve done this, with the connected ide in your hand, connect the remaining cable to both your hard drives. Next is the BIOS setup. I'm not sure which bios you have but look for the "boot priority" option. In it, select your master hdd as first priority and slave as second. This should solve your problem
Reset the jumpers on your master IDE then check and see if your slave is set slave. Or you can set both to CS (Cable select) and then set the drives on the right part of the IDE cable. If your still a no go. Set the drive master and put it alone and see if the bios sees it. If it does your doing something on the jumpers.
i have a problem similar to this. i have a HD installed on my old 2002 Dell POS that is set to "cable select" and works fine. but, when i connect a 2nd HD w/ the jumpers set to "cable select" to the middle (gray) connector, it says "please select/connect a valid boot drive". do I need to set the boot priority in the BIOS? i've tried setting the jumpers to various combinations of cable select, master/slave, etc. but can't get it to boot and recognize the new drive. Note: the 2nd drive i'm trying to install has been completely wiped using dban. could this affect it being recognized when i connect it? or could the 2nd drive be bad?
Hi mate, Try going to Control Panel> Administrative tools > computer management > Storage > Disk management and checking its status in there, in might be a case of reassigning a drive letter. Failing this try downloading some diagnostic software from the manufactors website to check the harddrive for errors alot of the main harddrive vendors provide theese. Hope this Helps Dave
