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OK, I have this problem. I goes like this:
I mounted a HDD hoizontally, and plugged in the power cable. I also plugged in a dual 40-pin IDE cable. There were 3 pairs of pins as well, one with MA written by them, one with SL and one with CS. There was a white thing with metal inside over the MA pins and I took it off and pushed it onto the SL pins. The two other ends plugged into my primary drive and the motherboard I turned on my comp and there was a rattling noise so I quickly turned it off, unplugged the power and IDE cable from the HDD and turned it back on, and here I am, very worried about a possibly broken HDD drive.
Anybody help?
I mounted a HDD hoizontally, and plugged in the power cable. I also plugged in a dual 40-pin IDE cable. There were 3 pairs of pins as well, one with MA written by them, one with SL and one with CS. There was a white thing with metal inside over the MA pins and I took it off and pushed it onto the SL pins. The two other ends plugged into my primary drive and the motherboard I turned on my comp and there was a rattling noise so I quickly turned it off, unplugged the power and IDE cable from the HDD and turned it back on, and here I am, very worried about a possibly broken HDD drive.
Anybody help?
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B****r. I think.
Compared to everything else on this thread this sounds dumb ... but anyways. What the hell is a private betatest?
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Glad it's ok now, I've lost all my files on both my HDDs, and win2k installation is being very broken..I'm stuck with winME at the moment, I keep getting out of memory errors then hitting it until it sees that there's 768mb ram in there.
Well, I found out the HDD was duff, so I got a free 4.3 gig HDD offered to me by school (?!?!?!?!) which I have partitioned into a 3 gig Windows and a 1.3 gig Linux. YES!!!
Thanks for all of you who tried to help.
Thanks for all of you who tried to help.
OK, I have this problem. I goes like this:
I mounted a HDD hoizontally, and plugged in the power cable. I also plugged in a dual 40-pin IDE cable. There were 3 pairs of pins as well, one with MA written by them, one with SL and one with CS. There was a white thing with metal inside over the MA pins and I took it off and pushed it onto the SL pins. The two other ends plugged into my primary drive and the motherboard I turned on my comp and there was a rattling noise so I quickly turned it off, unplugged the power and IDE cable from the HDD and turned it back on, and here I am, very worried about a possibly broken HDD drive.
Anybody help?
This is all I know
MA - this is the Master hard drive, the important stuff should be on this, i.e. Windows or whatever OS your trying to boot off it.
SL - this is the slave hard drive,the computer wont boot off this as its a slave to the Master HD.
CS - I think this is where the computer makes up its mind what to make of the drive. i.e. slave or master.
How your Computer views these drives may depend on your Bios settings (Which you probably want to avoid altering, Ive had days messing around getting frustrated, best not bother)
However the only real way to check the drive is to make sure its the only Hard Drive Connected to your Computer (i.e. unplug the IDE cables from the backs of your other HardDrives), This way the Computer will try to boot off it regardless of its MA, SL or CA setting. If it has an OS such as Windows it should boot, if not you may want to format it so it can be used as a second SL hard drive.
I mounted a HDD hoizontally, and plugged in the power cable. I also plugged in a dual 40-pin IDE cable. There were 3 pairs of pins as well, one with MA written by them, one with SL and one with CS. There was a white thing with metal inside over the MA pins and I took it off and pushed it onto the SL pins. The two other ends plugged into my primary drive and the motherboard I turned on my comp and there was a rattling noise so I quickly turned it off, unplugged the power and IDE cable from the HDD and turned it back on, and here I am, very worried about a possibly broken HDD drive.
Anybody help?
This is all I know
MA - this is the Master hard drive, the important stuff should be on this, i.e. Windows or whatever OS your trying to boot off it.
SL - this is the slave hard drive,the computer wont boot off this as its a slave to the Master HD.
CS - I think this is where the computer makes up its mind what to make of the drive. i.e. slave or master.
How your Computer views these drives may depend on your Bios settings (Which you probably want to avoid altering, Ive had days messing around getting frustrated, best not bother)
However the only real way to check the drive is to make sure its the only Hard Drive Connected to your Computer (i.e. unplug the IDE cables from the backs of your other HardDrives), This way the Computer will try to boot off it regardless of its MA, SL or CA setting. If it has an OS such as Windows it should boot, if not you may want to format it so it can be used as a second SL hard drive.
Supposedly. It is 40 pin IDE, that's all I know.
All I can say on this is that next time you mount your HDD, use protection.
What make of HDD is it? Is it compatable with the rest of your PC?
Sorry, I know this isn't a prime topic but I got my windows crossed and accidentally posted it here. If a webby wants to move it to chat they can.
Sorry!
Sorry!
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