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Bakumatsu · 02-22-2007, 08:34 PM

I just bought a Seagate Ultra ATA/100 250 gig hard drive. I already had two installed on my machine, but both using SATA cables and such. This new one I decided to try with IDE, but problem is I don't know wether to set it as slave or master. Or even if that's the problem

I connected all the wires, IDE, the power, left the drive on default
Booted up and....nothing, drive doesn't show, XP doesn't detect it, since it's the only IDE drive on the system what should I set it as? I know this is probally a really simple question, but I looked everywhere and no one seems to want to say what configurations are meant for what.

Thanks Much,
Me

02-22-2007, 08:34 PM	#1 (permalink)
Bakumatsu Registered User Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: The Americas Posts: 13 OS: Win XP Pro x64, Win XP Pro SP2, Ubuntu My System	[resolved]Seagate Ultra ATA I just bought a Seagate Ultra ATA/100 250 gig hard drive. I already had two installed on my machine, but both using SATA cables and such. This new one I decided to try with IDE, but problem is I don't know wether to set it as slave or master. Or even if that's the problem I connected all the wires, IDE, the power, left the drive on default Booted up and....nothing, drive doesn't show, XP doesn't detect it, since it's the only IDE drive on the system what should I set it as? I know this is probally a really simple question, but I looked everywhere and no one seems to want to say what configurations are meant for what. Thanks Much, Me