On 03/02/2009 13:06, keith wrote: > Thanks for the reply Dave. > > Not yet having opened the other machine I don't know how much room there will > be to rummage around in it. Presumably there's then the question of fiddling > about with the dip switches. > > Still I'll certainly consider what you say when I get round to doing the deed. > > Cheers, > > Keith. > > If it's the old IDE then you'll possibly either have to change jumper settings on the drive (Master/Slave) or if you're lucky and have UDMA66/100/133 cables (the 80 wire/40 pin cables - if the PC is less than about 9 years old you may well have this type of cable) you could try setting both drives to cable select, it will then automatically sort out the Master/Slave combination. I've found it usually works when you have an UDMA IDE cable.
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