[RESOLVED] Hard drive is not be recognized as master slave but be recognized as secondary slave?

[johnniegeorge]

I have a 20 gig drive maxtor, it crashed so I formatted completely even put a new partitioned and now my CPU will show it as the primary slave drive instead of the primary master...!! What did I do wrong? How can I make it the master again. I had to switch to my secondary drive which is a 1 gig and now it is my master the CPU picked it up immediately. Can you give me some advise please. Thank you kindly. JG

[AlienDyne]

That's weird... Did you change its jumper settings?

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[Tushar]

While connecting your old 1 gig did you by chance swap the ribbon cable ends ? Is the BIOS detections doen correctly ?. I think give a second look and also confirm the jumper settings.

[johnniegeorge]

Hi Aliendyne, I didn't change anything, what happen I was getting errors on a lot of programs because I let a friend use my computer and what she did I couldn't tell you. She is not computer friendly. what I did is transfer everything on my d: drive to my zip drive, then formatted my d:, then I formatted my c: drive. I did discovered somthing!!! my cable connect to my c: drive is not responding like it should, I have to press on it and move it around and then my old hard drive started to respond, so I have my 20 gig on hold now, I am going to just buy a new computer, I found out now, my sound card is giving me problems, what it does when I turn on the wave, I have a click sound that will not stop, my cd rom will still play music? this old pentium 233 will not let me upgrade to a 3D video card, so I am going to sell it and just buy a new CPU only, I have a good monitor 17". Thank you so much for the quick help, its good to know and have good people like you to for help. I told a lot of my friends to check out this site. Johnniegeorge