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romance

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31. October 2004 @ 16:46

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I recently put a new motherboard and cpu into my existing PC. I have two hard drives. An 80gig that I use as my master and I have it partitioned into two drives. And a 120gig drive that is my secondary drive. I reformated my main partition on the Master drive and reinstalled windows on it. Everything worked fine, it detected my partition and my files were still on it. So I tried to put my second drive in and when I started my system up it says it can't detect either drives. I really need the files on my second drive. I hope I don't have to reformat. ><

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ddp

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31. October 2004 @ 17:01

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if you have on same cable it looks like you have both set as master so motherboard can't because of conflict. change jumper on 120gig to slave & make certain 80gig is set as master

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romance

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31. October 2004 @ 17:08

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They are both set as slave and master as before. I didn't change anything.

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ddp

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31. October 2004 @ 17:13

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what make is hd's

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romance

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31. October 2004 @ 17:19

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Master 80gig Seagate. Slave 120gig Western Digital.

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ddp

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31. October 2004 @ 17:28

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put 120gig on secondary port. the problem is a hardware conflict between both drives on same cable. take cd/dvd rom off secondary cable to let bios see both drives. once seen reconfigure cd/dvd rom as slave to 120gig as master

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romance

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1. November 2004 @ 09:21

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I tried that, and still nothing. It just doesn't recognize my drive at all. My only chance of using the drive again is to reformat it. ; ; goodbye portfolio! Thanks for your help ddp your always quick with responses.

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ddp

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1. November 2004 @ 09:38

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do you have or access to another computer that you can slave your drive to & download portfolio to. make 120gig master & 80gig slave if bios sees them like that at all

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romance

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1. November 2004 @ 10:18

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I do have another PC i tried it in, and it did the same thing. It made it so neither drives were recognized. I'll try switching master slave and see how that goes.

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ianski7

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1. November 2004 @ 10:19

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Hey!

If your WD 120gb has a ten pin jumper confiuration try setting to 'single' and connect to secondary IDE channel with no other devices.

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romance

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1. November 2004 @ 12:27

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I took my two drives. Both Set as master on seperate IDE cables. It detected my 80 gig but still no go with the 120 ;;