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How do you determine if your drive is set as a slave drive or a master drive?
Master/Slave designation is determined by jumpers on IDE drives. Most drives have adequate markings on them to identify these jumper positions. If not marked clearly, you will need the manufacturer's...
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What does a slave drive do?
On the older style ATA drives, now called PATA or simply IDE, each drive chain had two positions for drives. One was called the Master, and the other the Slave drive. The drives performed in exactly...
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Are SATA drives USB drives?
SATA (Serial ATA) drives are normal drives that use the SATA interface when connecting to a PC. A SATA cable is used to bridge the gap between the drive and the computers motherboard and a separate...
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What'S an a drive and a c drive?
The letter used by Windows XP (ie a, b, c, d, e etc) is essentially a reference.By default, letters 'a' and 'b' are floppy drives and drive 'c' is the hard drive that the operating systems (Windows...
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Which drive is a CD Rom Drive?
If you know that you computer has a CD-ROM drive navigate to My Computer and look for an image (icon) of a CD or the name CD-ROM drive. That is likely to be the CD-ROM drive, although it may have...