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steve11
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_ 		13. September 2005 @ 12:36 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
i tried to install a secondhand hardrive i bought from ebay but unfortunately cannot get it to work.

i have a 40gb drive installed already and tried to install a maxtor diamondmax hard drive as the slave on the same ide channel.

i set the bios to auto detect but first of all would not recognise it, then when windows booted it came back with the "secondary harddrive error". i tried both the slave and cable select jumper settings but the diagram on the hdd is a bit confusing.

maxblast 4 would not recognise it, but im not sure i was using the right on as when i booted from the floppy it said "maxblast has detected a version of windows - due u wish to continue anyway.

i am not 100% certain that the drive works as the seller has a few bad comments for selling broken stuff but it was cheap and i dont want to throw it untill im certain its kaput

any1?

ps, when xp was detecting it on startup and giving this error it seemed to freeze for about a minute and then not load up xp at all, just loop
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_ 		13. September 2005 @ 12:49 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
if the bios is having trouble detecting the drive than the problem is with the drive. disconnect your c:drive temporarily so can use the diagnostics disk on the new drive. don't set the drive as cable select.
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