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by akaakk

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Hello

I recently installed a secondary hard drive in my computer, with both set to "cable select" the grey IDE connection (the slave) works the first time I boot the computer, then it doesn't see the drive on the second boot. The HDD light remains light all the after the second boot.

I have complete scans of the new drive, but nothing was found, I have switched power connections, but still run into the same issues. Any ideas??

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by dan.cox

Some times, depending on the system board or hard drive, the cable select option is flaky.
I would set the jumpers on your hard drivers for Master and Slave and plug them in appropriately. This way the settings are forced.

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