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Tumbleweed36 · 12-01-2006, 07:59 AM

Hi,

Please clarify. Normally with two hard drives, you would have on IDE #1, the Primary Master (end connector on the ribbon cable), with jumpers set to master. The other hard drive is normally the Primary Slave (middle connector on the ribbon cable) with jumpers set to slave. The CDRom, etc drives would be on the Secondary IDE Cable (although they could be on the Primary, but not the best setup if I understand what you have)

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Tumbleweed36 Asst Manager Hardware Join Date: May 2005 Location: USA Posts: 19,470 OS: XP Professional	Hi, Please clarify. Normally with two hard drives, you would have on IDE #1, the Primary Master (end connector on the ribbon cable), with jumpers set to master. The other hard drive is normally the Primary Slave (middle connector on the ribbon cable) with jumpers set to slave. The CDRom, etc drives would be on the Secondary IDE Cable (although they could be on the Primary, but not the best setup if I understand what you have) __________________ ---------- 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.