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Tumbleweed36 · 11-20-2008, 08:37 AM

First of all, if the IDE hard drive is alone on the ribbon cable, it needs to have the jumpers set to master and be on the end of the ribbon cable. If it is not formatted and you want to use it for storage, then you need to do that for it to work. What is the brand name of the drive?

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Tumbleweed36 Asst Manager Hardware Join Date: May 2005 Location: USA Posts: 19,467 OS: XP Professional	Re: Problem only see SATA and not IDE First of all, if the IDE hard drive is alone on the ribbon cable, it needs to have the jumpers set to master and be on the end of the ribbon cable. If it is not formatted and you want to use it for storage, then you need to do that for it to work. What is the brand name of the drive? __________________ ---------- I don't receive email notifications of replies to subscribed threads. (Internet provider policy) Therefore, if I don't respond to your post within 24 hours, please send me a reminder PM and include the link to your thread.