I think that I may have inserted the jumper pins in my Seagate Barracuda 500gb IDE in the wrong position.
Should the jumper pins be in cable select or master?
On the written guide label it shows cable select AND master on slave off
The DVD is on its own ribbon cable going into it's own IDE port on the motherboard IDE 2
The HDD shows on the motherboard as IDE 1
With me possibly inserting pins in the wrong order will I have fried the HDD.
If so what do you recommend as recovery software and which pin order should it be
The are only two ribbon cables DVD & HDD.
I look forward to your comments
Kind regards
Tony
Will be undertaking a total upgrade from the case upwards next year.
Case, motherboard, ram, cpu and last but not least a 2TB SSD, but before I do that everything will be backed up to the cloud
Wow, it's been a long time since I've worked with IDE drives. No, a jumper in the wrong position shouldn't 'fry' the drive, it just means it won't work untill the jumper is corrected. These manuals may help....
I also have W7 Pro on my System Two, and several W7 Hyper-V VMs. My other machines run Windows 10/11. Their specs are in my Ten Forums & Eleven Forum profiles.
Hi there Bree
Many thanks for contributing to my thread.
The background to this I acquired this desktop and in transporting something became dislodged I could hear something rattling as I drove along the motorway I did not / could not stop, taking the idea there would be nothing that I could do till I got back.
So when I eventually did get back I took off the side of the desktop and found the HDD on the bottom of the case and the ribbon dangling and believe or not I found on the motherboard a black jumper which I took to have originated from the HDD.
Now after your valuable advice I find that I have a copy of XP DEEP JOY
Once again many thanks to all
Will be undertaking a total upgrade from the case upwards next year.
Case, motherboard, ram, cpu and last but not least a 2TB SSD, but before I do that everything will be backed up to the cloud
