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Old 05-02-2005, 06:46 PM   #1
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Hard Drive Problems


My mom brought a computer home from her company and i took the hard drive outta that to install it into my other comp(this was a while ago). Now i put back in so i can install windows and i succesfully copied the setup files then rebooted and said found no operating system. I looked at the BIOS and it didnt even recognize my hdd!!! so i tried to install Mandrake 10.1 community but it still wont work! plz help!
 
Old 05-02-2005, 06:53 PM   #2
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Check the jumper settings. You may have it on slave when it should be master. If it is CS (cable select) change it to master.
 
Old 05-02-2005, 08:09 PM   #3
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I'll bet bulliver's advice will solve the problem. If not, also make sure that all cables are properly seated, and if you are getting a "No operating system found" error, it could be caused by leaving a non-system floppy disk in the drive. -- J.W.
 
Old 05-03-2005, 08:58 AM   #4
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how do i check the jumpre cables? I kno about the primary and slave stuff (their definitions at least) but how do i set the hard drive to primary?
 
Old 05-03-2005, 09:22 AM   #5
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On the back of the HD, next to where you plug the IDE cable in, you'll find a very small jumper. They're typically black plastic pieces, about 1/16 of an inch wide. It's just a jumper from one pin to another. Alot of HD's will have a diagram on top of them showing which pins need to be jumpered for Master/Slave.
 
Old 05-03-2005, 09:27 AM   #6
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okey dokey thnx for the advice, ill og check it out when ii get home(in computer class rite now!!!)
 
  


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