If we disregard any failure of drive, cable or motherboard there are TWO systems of setup for IDE. The original was the master slave and other arcane jumpers on 40 conductor cables (not to be confused with 40 pin IDE!)
Later you should find Cable Select as the PC makers needed to staunch the blood flow (money) on the production lines where the assemblers could get it wrong.
So you have TWO major jumper schemes, TWO types of IDE cables and a treasure trove of jumper settings to explore at https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&as_q=ide+jumpers
-> Sorry but I have done this for many years and in the end you need to know all 4 areas and then admit to going with which works.
Bob
Hello all
I have a old gateway computer, and I have put in a 80gb hard drive with the jumper on the master pin
and each time I boot it up I get the message that no hard drive could be found and to press esc to
prevent this message from showing up again or to press enter to continue with out the hard drive. If any one
has a clue to what I can to do to get the computer to recognize the hard drive I would be most greatfull.
I went into the bios and set everything to boot from the default settings and that did not help. I would like to put win xp on it to run my old games and not to be going on the inter net after April 14.
Thanks for any Help
sonnyboy66

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