Installing A 2nd HDD

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I am trying to install a second HDD in my comp, but I'm having a few problems, being the n00b I am. The drive I am trying to install (as a slave) is an HP, model no. 90430D2, does anyone know the jumper set up or how I could find it?

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I may have made an error with the model name. It has a big Hewlett Packard sticker on it, but aparently it's "Maxtor".

Here's the specs for it: http://www.codemicro.com/store/technote.cf...2E00&markcall=1

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I would try google and then type in the model number. Or the HP support website. Some drives are cable select (C/S) if none of the jumpers are set. Just plug the drive into the free plug of your ide cable. I dont know if that will work with your particular drive though. My suggestion would be to place the 2nd drive on its own ide channel. You wont lose any performance on any of your hard drives that way. Hope that helped.

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Cable Select means master or slave is determined by the position on the cable (end of cable master, other position slave), however your motherboard BIOS has to support this or it won't work properly. I had one old Compaq where the positions were reversed but as it worked I couldn't be bothered to figure out why. If you've got a CD drive you're not going to have any unused cables (unless you've got the current HD on the same channel as the CD?).

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Ok, here's the post-mortem:

When you turn on my computer, before anything, you have to enter a password, then it boots. When I had the HDD plugged in, this screen wouldn't appear, it would just hang on a blank screen. When I removed the drive, everything worked fine again. I'm not sure how the drive owuld have affected that log in, but it did. Anyone know why? At the very least, I'm assuming that means it doesn't and won't work?

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K, you've probably managed to put both drives on the same cable, and both as the same (master/slave).

So.....

Do you have a lovely MAXBLAST cd that came with your hard disk?

It has some lovely documentation on every single model that maxtor has made.

I'm pretty sure all you need to do is switch the jumper, to CS/Slave/Master .....

SOMETHING TO TRY: Put the HDD on your other (probably SECONDARY) IDE cable, and maybe unplug whatever else is on that cable for a second.

If it works, that's good, you'll be able to see if its Cable Select, Master or Slave.

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  [ Rich said:
,Feb 3 2004, 15:35] Ok, here's the post-mortem:

When you turn on my computer, before anything, you have to enter a password, then it boots. When I had the HDD plugged in, this screen wouldn't appear, it would just hang on a blank screen. When I removed the drive, everything worked fine again. I'm not sure how the drive owuld have affected that log in, but it did. Anyone know why? At the very least, I'm assuming that means it doesn't and won't work?

You have the IDE cable in the wrong way, the red side of the ribbon goes towards the power cable

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