Urgent Question

[TCH-Thomas]

I have been trying this for 4 hours and zillions of combinations but no luck for a couple of friends. For their sake its a little urgent .

I am trying to install a new harddrive which shall work as a slave (2nd harddrive).

The computer (now) contains 1 harddrive, 1 CDburner and 1 DVD.

 

Does anyone know how the jumpers are supposed to be set (see attached pic)?

 

Any help greatly appreciated.

[TCH-Dick]

You need to have the 2 hard drives on IDE 1 with the main drive set as master and the secondary as slave.

 

Then the two optical drives (cdrom and dvdrom) on IDE 2 with one as master and one as slave

 

The pic looks right to me

[TCH-Thomas]

Thanks Mike , I´ll try to fight the cd-burner and dvd again then.

[TCH-Thomas]

Now theres a problem with them again, Each harddrive will work but only with the combination: 1 HD, 1 CD, 1 DVD. If I try to connect both hd´s nothing happens except a message saying there is no system disk.

 

I forgot to mention in original post that it is a compaq computer if relevant.

 

Any suggestions what to do?

[MikeJ]

You are connecting both hard drives with the same data cable, correct? (CD and DVD are on a separate cable?).

 

And you have one drive (the boot drive) set as MASTER, and the second drive set as SLAVE?

[TCH-Thomas]

Correct Mike J.

[TCH-Dick]

I'd check and make sure that the motherboard in that PC supports 4 IDe devices. It should, but you never know

[TCH-Thomas]

I'd check and make sure that the motherboard in that PC supports 4 IDe devices. It should, but you never know

Ok, that might be the problem. I didnt know they did not have to support 4 devices. Is there any way I can check that without looking in the manual?

Edited July 30, 2004 by Jikrantz

[TCH-Dick]

whats model is the computer?

[TCH-Thomas]

Dont know right now and my friends is not at home for the moment, but I´ve told them to check as soon as they can.