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HD works as slave drive but not master drive

Jul 27, 2005 4:13AM PDT

I?m working on a friend?s computer. It?s a Pentium III, built 1998. The computer has a 4gb hard drive and a 60gb hard drive, it was no problem installing the 60 gb hard drive as a slave drive. But I would like to take the 60 gb hard drive and make it the master drive. I switch the jumper on the hard drive to be set as a master drive. When the computer initially boot up, it recognizes the 60 gb hard drive (I can see the brand name of the hard drive pops up, but then the BIOS comes up and is waiting for you to enter the hard drive information manually. I tried to get the BIOS to do an auto detect of the hard drive but it just sat there. Do I have to change the BIOS manually? There's got to be an easier way. I using the IDE plug not ATA.
The 60 gb is a Hitachi - Deskstar.

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Odd issue.
Jul 27, 2005 4:32AM PDT

The use of master or slave jumpers is for very very old machines that were fitted with 40 conductor cables. Today's cables and drives use the newer 80 conductor cables and we move the drive from master to slave by which connector we such on the 80 conductor cable.

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What operating...
Jul 27, 2005 10:59AM PDT

system are you using. If it's 98se or there abouts there would be a size issue. Please tell us ALL the specs on this machine please.

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Jack