All those old master/slave jumpers from years ago seem to be hampering today's builders. For instance I rarely use the Master/Slave settings. With 80 conductor cables it's always set the devices to Cable Select and then plug into the connector of choice.
Bob
I am building a new computer and I wish to use a hard drive from an old computer plus a new HD. When I tried to hook this up the computer will work with one or the other but not when both are hooked up. I did all the master and salve moves but it made not difference.
The system is an MSI with athlon 3000xp 1.5G DDR.The Older HD Has Win ME and the new machine is Win XP pro. The reason I want to save the old HD is that it is from my daughters computer and she would like me to save the data(mostly Pictures).
Any ideas on how to get around this mess.
C T Fetscher

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