Quote:blackaeronaut wrote:All I said is that you need to worry about jumpers with the older IDE parts, and occasionally cables, as well. The mechanics aren't that hard- it's knowing when you actually have to *bother* with them that's somewhat odd. It's not quite a Tuesday thing for me (that'd be more like SATA problems, as I'm not quite that experienced), but at least Thursday afternoon. ^^
EDIT: Bluemage, IIRC this is easily sorted out by ensuring that you got one drive on the same channel set as the master and the other set as the slave. Two drives max per IDE channel, one Master, one Slave. Check the jumper settings on the back of both drives and make sure you have the correct jumpers in place. If no instructions for this are printed on the drive, then you'll need to look them up online. Fortunate you are that you still have a viable machine to connect to the Internet.
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Should be easy enough to check things... maybe even without turning the PC off. A bit of compressed air in the right places (try the back of the hard drive, right above the IDE/power ports... or the top rear of the drive- most* drives with the jumper settings on them have them there) should do it. I find that, as long as you're *careful*, and have a big enough case (as in a mid tower that's not totally full), a smartphone camera can get you a surprising amount of info- something about having the camera lens offset from your hand, I'd say. As long as you have autofocus and a flash, and take multiple pics, you should be able to read info off pics of labels you could never read directly.
*Some drives- Maxtors, if memory serves- put it midway up the label. If you have one of those, you'll have to pull it to get the info.
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