Jim- Ok, I set both to Cable Select and put the slave on the interior pass through connector and the master at the end of the cable. I now have a new drive on my PC with everything(looks like) that was on the larger drive showly. I cannot, however, get into any of the files under Documents and Settings for the profiles that were on the larger drive that I made a slave. "Access is denied". No big problem because I think all I want to do is use this drive for storage, but I do not know how to safely clean it off and I don't want to just randomly start taking off files. I suppose the drive still has its Windows OS on it, which is the same OS as the master drive. It also created a new drive for what was the secondary drive on the larger drive that I put in. I don't even know if I need that drive. It looks like it has the recovery information that was on the larger drive. Everything else looks OK. It boots to the smaller drive just like before and shows the new drives(F and G) that are the larger drive. So, I guess I need to know what I can do to these new drives to make them useful. Thankx a lot. Jim
-----Original Message----- From: Windows Home/SOHO [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of James Button Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2007 1:04 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: How to install slave drive Howdy again Jim. Re not accepting the windows codes It should accept the one it was created with, Presumably the one that was with the Compaq1 that you got the larger hard drive with. But - as you are going down the second drive path, the first thing is to get the system back to working with the original configuration. So - Do you have 2 P-ATA IDE cables, and do either of then have markings such as CS or master and Slave on them What do you have connected to which interface blocks on the cables On the drive, there should be some indication as to the action of the various jumper settings (if you cannot find them, then you'll need to use the drive type to check with the Seagate site for the meanings) It should be pretty basic - if the cable is a CS one marked with Master and Slave, then the cable will tell the drive if it is to be a master, or slave drive - and you can have 1 of each on a cable. That's what the jumper setting CS is for - so the drive knows it is to take its setting from the cable, but do connect the first (or only) drive to the master position on the cable. Other cables do not have the wiring to force a drive to be master, or slave, and with those you need to tell the drive if it is a master, only drive, or a slave drive.You do that by setting the jumpers appropriately (Jumpers are usually at the rear of the drive between the power supply and the interface cable) Awaiting your response after you have checked that - Oh 1 and do check that you do have 2 sockets on the motherboard for the P-ATA IDE cables. -- ---------------------------------------- To Change your email Address for this list, send the following message: CHANGE WIN-HOME your_old_address your_new_address to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Note carefully that both old and new addresses are required.
