Slave drive

kelbywhiddon · 01-04-2009, 08:45 PM

i am using windows xp but i had another hard drive that had xp on it too it was a good hard drive but xp was taking up room on it so i went to it like you do with like a flash drive and i clicked format and it eraced every thing and when i restarted my computer it said that it did not work or it did not have the right software on it to work right and it said something like press any butten to boot without the slave drive and i did but when i went to try to put things on the slave drive it did not show up so i tried to unplug my hard drive and just leave the slave drive in and tried to put the windows xp cd in and reinstall xp but it did not let me boot from the cd so is there any thing i can do to get my compleatly blank hard drive to work again

PLEAS HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

Tumbleweed36 · 01-04-2009, 08:55 PM

Enter the bios setup menu and set the boot order to:

CDRom - 1st
Floppy - 2nd
Hard Drive - 3rd

Check the Hard Drive Priority (if there) so that your Hard drive is listed FIRST.

Then, put he hard drive on the ribbon cable and set the jumpers to MASTER and place the hard drive on the end of the ribbon cable.

If you have any other drive on this cable, set the jumpers to SLAVE and put in in the middle connector of the ribbon cable. That should get you going.

Just remember, any time you are dealing with any drive on the cable, you must make sure that the other drive on that cable (if any) is set correctly to work with two drives on the cable. (ie: Master and Slave......or CS and CS)

Feel free to ask any questions/express any concerns/etc.

01-04-2009, 08:45 PM	#1 (permalink)
kelbywhiddon Registered User Join Date: Jan 2009 Posts: 2 OS: windows xp service pack 3	Slave drive i am using windows xp but i had another hard drive that had xp on it too it was a good hard drive but xp was taking up room on it so i went to it like you do with like a flash drive and i clicked format and it eraced every thing and when i restarted my computer it said that it did not work or it did not have the right software on it to work right and it said something like press any butten to boot without the slave drive and i did but when i went to try to put things on the slave drive it did not show up so i tried to unplug my hard drive and just leave the slave drive in and tried to put the windows xp cd in and reinstall xp but it did not let me boot from the cd so is there any thing i can do to get my compleatly blank hard drive to work again PLEAS HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

01-04-2009, 08:55 PM	#2 (permalink)
Tumbleweed36 Asst Manager Hardware Join Date: May 2005 Location: USA Posts: 19,715 OS: XP Professional	Re: Slave drive Enter the bios setup menu and set the boot order to: CDRom - 1st Floppy - 2nd Hard Drive - 3rd Check the Hard Drive Priority (if there) so that your Hard drive is listed FIRST. Then, put he hard drive on the ribbon cable and set the jumpers to MASTER and place the hard drive on the end of the ribbon cable. If you have any other drive on this cable, set the jumpers to SLAVE and put in in the middle connector of the ribbon cable. That should get you going. Just remember, any time you are dealing with any drive on the cable, you must make sure that the other drive on that cable (if any) is set correctly to work with two drives on the cable. (ie: Master and Slave......or CS and CS) Feel free to ask any questions/express any concerns/etc. __________________ ---------- 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. Last edited by Tumbleweed36; 01-04-2009 at 08:57 PM.