[SOLVED] Adding a new (old) drive

steveak · 04-08-2008, 02:38 PM

Greetings:

First post here. Just tried fire up an old HP Pavillion (it has last year's taxes on it) and it is dead. No power on anything. Has a Maxtor 20 gig model 92041U4 in it. There are no jumpers on it, master/single is on and slave is off according to the label.
Can I put this in another computer as a slave to retrieve data? If so how?

Steve

dai · 04-08-2008, 03:22 PM

put a jumper in the slave position and connect it to the middle plug on the cable
you will need to check the drive on the end of the cable you are attaching it to is set as master or it it is a wd drive master with slave

steveak · 04-09-2008, 12:56 AM

Thanks
Inspite of thinking there were no jumpers there in fact were. Found them and looked up the correct settings. Set it up as a slave and installed it. Worked just like I knew what I was doing.
God really does look out for us idiots on occasion.

Steve

dai · 04-09-2008, 11:15 AM

we were all the same when we started you will gain the knowledge as you go along the path of a computer user

04-08-2008, 02:38 PM	#1 (permalink)
steveak Registered User Join Date: Apr 2008 Posts: 2 OS: xp	[SOLVED] Adding a new (old) drive Greetings: First post here. Just tried fire up an old HP Pavillion (it has last year's taxes on it) and it is dead. No power on anything. Has a Maxtor 20 gig model 92041U4 in it. There are no jumpers on it, master/single is on and slave is off according to the label. Can I put this in another computer as a slave to retrieve data? If so how? Steve

04-08-2008, 03:22 PM	#2 (permalink)
dai Manager, Hardware Forums Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: west australia Posts: 56,204 OS: win 7 32x 64x rtm	Re: Adding a new (old) drive put a jumper in the slave position and connect it to the middle plug on the cable you will need to check the drive on the end of the cable you are attaching it to is set as master or it it is a wd drive master with slave __________________

04-09-2008, 12:56 AM	#3 (permalink)
steveak Registered User Join Date: Apr 2008 Posts: 2 OS: xp	Re: Adding a new (old) drive Thanks Inspite of thinking there were no jumpers there in fact were. Found them and looked up the correct settings. Set it up as a slave and installed it. Worked just like I knew what I was doing. God really does look out for us idiots on occasion. Steve

04-09-2008, 11:15 AM	#4 (permalink)
dai Manager, Hardware Forums Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: west australia Posts: 56,204 OS: win 7 32x 64x rtm	Re: Adding a new (old) drive we were all the same when we started you will gain the knowledge as you go along the path of a computer user __________________