Help with Installing two hard drives

octapuss1 · 27 Oct 2010

This is the harddrive. It shows that the slave option for the jumpers, is no pin at all. Just blank.

DocBrown · 27 Oct 2010

Yes, on several of my computers, the IDE's are usually listed first, & the Sata's last.

Could you have a bad flat ribbon cable, do you have any extra 40 pin cables to test with?

octapuss1 · 27 Oct 2010

I dont have another ribbon. I can get one from work tomorrow.

A bit of a puzzle here.

DocBrown · 27 Oct 2010

Was this a brand new IDE HD or Used ? Any other computer that it could be tested in ?

octapuss1 · 27 Oct 2010

In IDE Configuration it gives me the option to set Serial ATA, Parallel ATA or both as native mode.

What do you recommend here?

octapuss1 · 27 Oct 2010

The HD worked in my other computer for a good year. I have changed to this computer as it could install WIN7 on it and old one could not.

When plugging it in to the old computer, and HD runs fine, and all the files are there.

DocBrown · 27 Oct 2010

octapuss1 said:

In IDE Configuration it gives me the option to set Serial ATA, Parallel ATA or both as native mode.

What do you recommend here?

Try BOTH,,

and set the jumper on the IDE HD as slave, especially if it had an operating system on it before in the old computer.

Also on the MB how may SATA connections ? are they marked SATA0 (zero), SATA1, SATA2, etc ? Best to have the SATA HD with the Win7 OS on the lowest numbered SATA connection on MB.

SledgeDG · 27 Oct 2010

octapuss1 said:

It shows that the slave option for the jumpers, is no pin at all. Just blank.

That is correct, I just checked the Seagate paper for that drive.
Just make sure that the Master drive is set to master and not Cable Select because then you have to bridge the 2nd pair of pins from the left.

-DG

DocBrown · 27 Oct 2010

Does your IDE ribbon cable have the little raised notches in it? I have some older cables that don't have them & it was possible to install them upside down & therfore an incorrect cable connection.

octapuss1 · 27 Oct 2010

tried it too both. No luck so far. The setting for slave on this HD is no pin at all. I have read, and reread and it seems to be no pin. I just tried a different ribbon as well. No luck.