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Installing second hard disk as slave drive

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by mark2.0

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I have recently inherited 4 machines from a small facility
my company is
taking over. I have taken one of the hard
disks out of the inherited machine and put it into one of
my own. Both
systems run XP. My machine runs pro, the other runs
Home. I cannot
get my computer to detect the "new" hard drive. Or if it is
there, I do not
seem to be able to find it. Any suggestions?

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by bart777

We can't help crack passwords here.
However..
Given the fact that the older PCs are all XP Home I would wipe and start over.
Now you COULD load a second OS like XP pro onto the new machine and get whatever files you are looking for off of the drives and then wipe and add to you domain later. That would be the easiest way to do it I think. You basically end up with 4 dual boot pcs.

Best of luck.

by robo_dev

And assuming that you've got a generic PC of some sort...

Then the jumpers on the first hard drive need to be set to master/primary and the jumpers on the second hard drive need to be set to slave/secondary.

If it's a newer PC, it may use 'cable select' which means both drives are jumpered as CS.

The OS does not matter at all.

by mark2.0

Thanks for the info. I did set the jumpers to slave for the
second drive. It still will not read. The drives are standard
IDE drives. When I reattached the old drive to the old
computer, it won't read it now. I think it may be dead. We'll
call it a casualty of war.

by robo_dev

Try connecting the secondary drive all by itself. You cannot break anything this way...it will either work or not.

by dumphrey

for your already installed HD. The settings for single drive are not always the same as CS or Master. If one drive is set as master or slave, the other must be set to be master or slave. Best bet is to set both to cable select.

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