[Fire-Element]

Hi,

Basically I have my pc it broke while back and i though it was drive it turned out to be wireless card had broke... anyways I ended up buying a new hard drive 80gb and formating it only for it not to work again I realised after I pluged it in directly to the internet that it worked fine then on internet... changed my wireless card and now it works fine...

But to the point... when i tried to use my old drive as a slave drive it wont load up... just says insert system disk and press enter... or something like that on a black screen so i though maybe i just needed to format my old hard drive again but to be used as a slave as it is formated with xp on...

anyways I tried putting jumpers in where it says and same black screen...
I am not sure I am doing the jumpers right though because my new drive the one that works fine with out slave drive wont work on its own if i put a jumper in making it master drive...

I just now had idea now to check and see if it will work on its own like the other drive... to see if its knakered... but am pretty sure it is... but i get back to you if it dont....

Any ideas on what to do would be fantastic!

Thanks

[Claymore]

Just in case you haven't done this already:
The standard setup is to put the drive that has the working operating system on it on the end of the cable and set as Master. The other (backup) drive goes to the connection in the middle of the cable and is set as Slave. Double-check you have the jumpers set correctly. Some systems work by having both drives' jumpers set to Cable Select (CS).

Another thing to check is the boot order in the BIOS - that the drive with the working operating system on it is set to boot before the other one. Once the "old" drive is formatted it won't try to boot from it since it has no operating system on it.

[Fire-Element]

I have tried to set the other hard drive up as master... cable select... all sorts and it seems my old drive no longer works...

as my computer is not detecting it...

So am guessing thats my probable I buy another for £20... as a back up for my work oh well...

I have external drive aswel that backs my stuff up i will use that for now till i get a new one =D

Thanks for your help.

I didnt try putting the master on the end of the cable as my pc cant even notice the other hard drive! Unless I missed something am guessing its nackered?

The only think that makes me wonder is if it was knackered surely when i had the other hard drive on master and it attached it should just ignored it and loaded??