You have 2h drives you keep only 1 connected do you know how to make 1 hard drive master and another hard drive a slave right now both don't have a switch master -slave on the back and both have windowsxp?

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if you r having 2h read the instruction given on the top of the hd becouse the jumpher setting for different hd may be different.so make one hd master with slave by putting the jumpher(connector of two pins)in aapropriate no pin pair and make another slave coneect the two hard disks with the ide cable(do it after turnning off your computer).after then start your computer for clarification check your BIOS setting whether whatever you have don is right or not.in BIOS main section the information about master and slave is given.if your problem yet persist then either mail me or contact any expert.

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To make one Hard Drive master and one slave you will have to find jumper setting menu that is located on the top side of hard drive if nothing is there then find a little table on the hard drives controller (Circuit Card).

If no jumper pins located between IDE CABLE CHANNEL and POWER CONNECTOR CHANNEL then find the jumpers on the Hard Disk Controller (Circuit Card), theses may be tiny jumpers.

If there are no instruction there and you find just jumper pins , see near the jumper pins you may find (JS,CS,DS) WHERE DS is master .

For slave try removing jumper to free all jumper pins then attach this hdisk with your hard disk and check (Make sure you always go to bios and detect it )

Otherwise remove the cdrom and attach the second hard drive in place of cdrom.

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