Primary and Slave Disk

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What manufacturers disks are they. Maxtor's take a single jumper for Master
and no jumpers for slave. Western Digitals are totally different. Can you
see both disks in the bios?
"Isabel" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:8dc201c49677$e220ede0$a501280a@phx.gbl...
Have two HDD which have just installed as Master and Slave
disks but my PC does not recognized the existence of the
slave disk. It has to be pointed out that the slave disk
is having problems and the idea of installing it as a
slave disk is to have access to all files, rescue them
using the master access. Once all files contained in the
slave disk are copied then I'll change the slave back into
the Master position, boot it and reloand full Windows XP
from the beginning, including formatting, and then re-
install it as a slave.

The whole point here is not to loose all files kept in
current slave HDD.

How can my PC recognize this slave disk ? am I skipping an
important step ? is it possible to access all files from
Master disk ?

Thanks

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Thanks for your response. Both disks are Maxtor and I can
only see the Master one in the bios.

>-----Original Message-----
>What manufacturers disks are they. Maxtor's take a
single jumper for Master
>and no jumpers for slave. Western Digitals are totally
different. Can you
>see both disks in the bios?
>"Isabel" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message
>news:8dc201c49677$e220ede0$a501280a@phx.gbl...
>Have two HDD which have just installed as Master and Slave
>disks but my PC does not recognized the existence of the
>slave disk. It has to be pointed out that the slave disk
>is having problems and the idea of installing it as a
>slave disk is to have access to all files, rescue them
>using the master access. Once all files contained in the
>slave disk are copied then I'll change the slave back into
>the Master position, boot it and reloand full Windows XP
>from the beginning, including formatting, and then re-
>install it as a slave.
>
>The whole point here is not to loose all files kept in
>current slave HDD.
>
>How can my PC recognize this slave disk ? am I skipping an
>important step ? is it possible to access all files from
>Master disk ?
>
>Thanks
>
>
>.
>

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Isabel, if they are both Maxtor's and you cannot see the slave (no jumpers)
in the bios then I would suspect the slave disk is bad. It's doubtful that
the ide port is bad by you might install the jumper, make it a master and
attach it to the cable alone and see what the bios says.

"Isabel" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:02b701c496ab$3ca8b580$a401280a@phx.gbl...
Thanks for your response. Both disks are Maxtor and I can
only see the Master one in the bios.

>-----Original Message-----
>What manufacturers disks are they. Maxtor's take a
single jumper for Master
>and no jumpers for slave. Western Digitals are totally
different. Can you
>see both disks in the bios?
>"Isabel" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message
>news:8dc201c49677$e220ede0$a501280a@phx.gbl...
>Have two HDD which have just installed as Master and Slave
>disks but my PC does not recognized the existence of the
>slave disk. It has to be pointed out that the slave disk
>is having problems and the idea of installing it as a
>slave disk is to have access to all files, rescue them
>using the master access. Once all files contained in the
>slave disk are copied then I'll change the slave back into
>the Master position, boot it and reloand full Windows XP
>from the beginning, including formatting, and then re-
>install it as a slave.
>
>The whole point here is not to loose all files kept in
>current slave HDD.
>
>How can my PC recognize this slave disk ? am I skipping an
>important step ? is it possible to access all files from
>Master disk ?
>
>Thanks
>
>
>.
>

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Or you may want to try a different IDE Cable. Some cables are unable to
determine slave/master for you. My Maxtor drive does CS when you remove
the jumpers.

----
Nathan McNulty


Norm wrote:
> Isabel, if they are both Maxtor's and you cannot see the slave (no jumpers)
> in the bios then I would suspect the slave disk is bad. It's doubtful that
> the ide port is bad by you might install the jumper, make it a master and
> attach it to the cable alone and see what the bios says.
>
> "Isabel" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:02b701c496ab$3ca8b580$a401280a@phx.gbl...
> Thanks for your response. Both disks are Maxtor and I can
> only see the Master one in the bios.
>
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>What manufacturers disks are they. Maxtor's take a
>
> single jumper for Master
>
>>and no jumpers for slave. Western Digitals are totally
>
> different. Can you
>
>>see both disks in the bios?
>>"Isabel" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
>
> message
>
>>news:8dc201c49677$e220ede0$a501280a@phx.gbl...
>>Have two HDD which have just installed as Master and Slave
>>disks but my PC does not recognized the existence of the
>>slave disk. It has to be pointed out that the slave disk
>>is having problems and the idea of installing it as a
>>slave disk is to have access to all files, rescue them
>>using the master access. Once all files contained in the
>>slave disk are copied then I'll change the slave back into
>>the Master position, boot it and reloand full Windows XP
>
>>from the beginning, including formatting, and then re-
>
>>install it as a slave.
>>
>>The whole point here is not to loose all files kept in
>>current slave HDD.
>>
>>How can my PC recognize this slave disk ? am I skipping an
>>important step ? is it possible to access all files from
>>Master disk ?
>>
>>Thanks
>>
>>
>>.
>>
>
>
>