Western Digital Caviar WD2500BB 250 GB Hard Drive "dvd jumper settings" Questions

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dvd which is still use IDE , set jumper as master , it reads alright as IDXE master and it show my SATA hard drive ...try to install OS on to it .... it gets to " computer is inspecting your system "

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...jumper on the hard drive will be set as the Master drive. You may also have a CD or DVD drive connected to this cable, if so then the CD or DVD drive will be jumpered as a Slave drive. If the second ...

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...dvd drive on the middle. others computers may have one ribbon cable for each device as computers usually come with 2 drive controllers (so you can connect 2 cables which means a total of upto 4 eide ...

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...Dvd rom, so the connections are good. Hard drive says Master/Slave jumper not required for SATA. Pins 3 and 4 enable power up in Standby. This is an older system, would a different jumper pin setting ...

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...DVD/CD-ROM and floppy disk drives. Remove the screws that secure the hard drive to the bay. Slowly slide the drive out of the bay. The drive will be connected to a data and power cable. You can ...

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...jumper on the CD/DVD to slave and setting the Maxtor to Master, this should get it working. Second, if it is showing up as 33GB, you have the Jumpers set to limit capacity(designed to avoid troubles ...

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...dvd's jumper to slave.Set the hard drive jumper to masterORvice versa.*Some DVD burners do not like to be slave, or even on the same channel as another device.The following is the ideal set upIf each ...

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jumper needs to be set as SL (Slave). If you are installing the hard drive on the 2nd disk controller and there is no other devices on this data cable then it does not matter if it is set to MA or SL.

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...dvd/cdrom drive then it will conflict with it if both jumper setting was set to master. See the description of jumper settings in the sticker of the hdd. Position the jumper to slave. Reboot your ...

with very different values of free space. now, my "e" drive or slave drive is fine but my dvd drive is not present. though its on and plugged in. and previously worked. my thought was ...the

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