My friend recently bought a new hard drive and I installed it for him as a secondary.
I took his old 15G hard drive, that was in perfect working condition, and switch the jumpers to slave. I hook it all up, master to master and slave to slave. Power it up and get a no operating system found.
The first time this happened I flipped out and thought I had jacked up my original hard drive. So I rip everything apart and plug up only the master, my original HD and power it back up. Everything runs perfect.
I switch the jumpers around on the secondary so that it is set for master, keeping my HD out of it, I power it up. No operating system found again. I know the little 15G HD is wiped so this is to be expected.
I then switch it back to slave, put in my HD and power it all back up and I get no operating system found. So the only logical solution I can come up with is that it is reading the slave as the master. I don't know how this is possible since I have the master jumpered to master and plugged in with the "Master" end of the IDE cable.
For now I have just taken the 15G HD out of the loop. Any help or ideas would be appreciated
BTW the computer is a HP Pavillion 511w walmart special. I have done some adding here and there but nothing to hardcore
I took his old 15G hard drive, that was in perfect working condition, and switch the jumpers to slave. I hook it all up, master to master and slave to slave. Power it up and get a no operating system found.
The first time this happened I flipped out and thought I had jacked up my original hard drive. So I rip everything apart and plug up only the master, my original HD and power it back up. Everything runs perfect.
I switch the jumpers around on the secondary so that it is set for master, keeping my HD out of it, I power it up. No operating system found again. I know the little 15G HD is wiped so this is to be expected.
I then switch it back to slave, put in my HD and power it all back up and I get no operating system found. So the only logical solution I can come up with is that it is reading the slave as the master. I don't know how this is possible since I have the master jumpered to master and plugged in with the "Master" end of the IDE cable.
For now I have just taken the 15G HD out of the loop. Any help or ideas would be appreciated
BTW the computer is a HP Pavillion 511w walmart special. I have done some adding here and there but nothing to hardcore