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.
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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