bindudhindsa

I am trying to connect 2 hard drives as Master-Slave, but for some reason its not working. Please help me out in this. I want Seagate IDE 160 GB as Master Hard drive and WD IDE 80 GB as slave drive. I connected one side of ribbon cable to my motherboard and another side to my master hard drive and middle connector to my slave hard drive. I changed jumper settings. On Seagate Master hard drive I have 3 options printed on it first says master=on, slave=off, another says cable select and last one says drive limit to 32 GB. So I tried both 1st and 2nd option but did’t work. Then I tried middle connector of my ribbon cable to master hard drive and other connector to slave hard drive. Then it detects my master hard drive but not slave. I tried replacing ribbon cable to make sure there is nothing wrong in it but got same with other ribbon cable. For all these test I set up jumper on WD slave hard drive on slave option printed on WD hard drive.
But still I am unable to see my slave hard drive. Could you please tell me if I m doing something wrong here or any other suggestion how can I try it.
Please let me know if there is any other way i can retrieve data from my slave drive?
Thanks in advance

navasdell

you try to change jumper setting.

Tumbleweed36

Just a double check:

Make sure you are using an 80 connector cable and not one of the old 40 connector cables. (normally 80 connector cable = Blue to motherboard, black on the end to master and gray in the middle to slave)

Then, make sure the Seagate has the jumpers set to Master and placed on the end of the ribbon cable (black), and the WD, has the jumpers set to Slave and placed in the middle (gray) of the ribbon cable. That should get it, so give it a try and reply back with questions/concerns/results.

raptor_pa

A bit more clarification, you say you want to get your data back from the slave, is this a drive that was previously installed in another system which has failed?

bindudhindsa

Thanks for your quick reply Guys..
Tumbleweed , could you please tell me any other difference between 80 connector and 40 connector cable .. i have only cables which are black on all connectors.
Raptor that drive was working in other computer ..just want to collect some data out of it before formatting.
Any other clarification .. please ask ..
Thanks again ..

Tumbleweed36

Sounds like you have an older 40 connector cable. Go to a computer store or some place like that an buy a new 80 connector cable.

bindudhindsa

OKay Tumbleweed i borrowed this 80 connector cable from one of my frnd .. i connected blue connector to motherboard, grey to slave and black to master. Jumper settings is set at master=on, slave=off at master hard drive and slave at slave hard drive. But for some reason its booting up slave drive not master hard drive. Please help

Tumbleweed36

I need to understand exactly what you are saying since I am a bit confused at this point. I know, for me a long day, so it may just take a memory jolt. First of all, does it see both drives, but is booting the wrong one?

If it is seeing both drives now, but booting from the wrong one, then go to the bios setup menu in the Boot area and set the drive you want to boot from as FIRST in the Boot Priority setting. That way, it will look for the drive you want to boot from first.

bindudhindsa

Thanks for all your help Tumbleweed .. I tried CS option on jumper settings with same connector settings you told me. I got it right and able to see my slave drive.
Anyways thanks for all your help. I appreciate your time and quick replies. I will mark it as solved ..thanks again

Tumbleweed36

That is great news. I suspect the 80 connector cable is very important here so do keep that setup. Have a great rest of the week and let us know if you have further issues.