April 29, 200917 yr Hi techo riders. I'm installing a new hard drive in my computer. It has 2 hard drives, a master and a slave. I took out the slave and installed the new bigger slave drive and it won't recognize it.
April 30, 200917 yr The jumper settings on the new hard drive by default would be set to master or as a single drive. You will need to alter these for the drive to accept it must be a slave for you. (I needed to do this for my wife.)
April 30, 200917 yr Author Hi PA. The jumpers are fine and the connection is fine. I'm replacing a 10 gig slave. I've been down the master / slave hard drive road before. When I put the old slave back in it recognizes it just fine.
May 1, 200917 yr Hi PA.The jumpers are fine and the connection is fine. I'm replacing a 10 gig slave. I've been down the master / slave hard drive road before. When I put the old slave back in it recognizes it just fine. I know this is a stupid reply, but is your new drive EIDE compatable(old style) as the newer drives use a different standard and the older ones are more difficult to find. Am not sure if the connections will interchange, but there is a difference.
May 3, 200917 yr Author Yes it's a EIDE style but I trhink the old motherboard won't recognize anything over 100G. I'm going to try to update the BIOS.
May 4, 200917 yr Yes it's a EIDE style but I trhink the old motherboard won't recognize anything over 100G.I'm going to try to update the BIOS. Good luck with that. You may have to partition it into something it will find!
May 9, 200917 yr Download a program from the drive manufacturer to complete the first format. In the case of Maxtor drives the program is 'Maxblast', Seagate also have their own. You run this program, it will complete a quick format/setup and windows will be able to see the new drive. Should sort it.
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