I am trying to figure out the proper jumper setting for Master settings

This solution will reference the picture below:
To configure the drive in Master mode, no jumper setting is used (Figure A1).
To configure the drive in Slave mode, the jumper must be placed over the two vertical pins on the far right (Figure A2).
To configure the drive in Cable Select mode, the jumper must be placed over the two pins in the bottom row (Figure A3)

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you may have not properly set the jumpers on your new installed hard drive.

usually a computer will have 2 eide drive controllers where you would connect a ribbon cable. a ribbon cable has a middle connector and end connector and obviously another end connector that connects to the motherboard)
now you can connect upto to devices to that ribbon cable. most computers will have one device connected to the end connector (the hard drive) and no devices connected to the middle connector or sometimes they may have 2 device on the same cable: the hard drive on the end and a cd/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 devices)

now, when you connect devices on 1 ribbon cable, the end device is the master device, the one the middle is the slave. to make a device a master or a slave you need to set a jumper. the jumper is usually located in between the ribbon cable connector and the power connector, the legend to know where the jumper goes to make it a slave or a master is usually on the label of the hard drive. you may need to check that label and with some pliers make the proper setting for that jumper.

on a new hd usually the jumper setting will be in master. so if you connected the hard drive on a ribbon cable that already has a master at the end it may not be detected. try to connect that master device on another ribbon cable that has no other devices connected and connect it on the end connector (not the middle one). if you have no other option but to connect it in the middle already having a master device at the end, set the jumper to on the slave position.

while you are at it. make sure you have your power connector and data (ribbon) cable properly seated.

if the caviar hd your are trying to install is an old hd and you know that you have the proper hd configuration and the cables properly seated, it is possible that no detection means hd failure.

there is a jumper settings in hard disk, try to set it to master by remove the transfer the cap into master settings and plug the hdd cable properly to its designated slot.

Floydage, some ribbons are different in the orentation of pin#1. try a differnent cable...but you said that you tried that right.? have you tried to make sure you have the latist BIOS. It could be this paticuler drive have a different bios it self...and yes drive's do have chip's and software in them. If nothing ells just load the OS to that drive anyway and than change the drive letters in windows.

Just check the harddrive connector diagram on the hdd itself it shows clearly the way to connect jumper settings.

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check your ide connectin that blue end of ide cable always at motherbord .also check that your ide cable is working properly.

The jumper settings for Maxtor ATA drives can be found here: http://www.seagate.com/images/support/en/us/mxo_ata_jumpers.gif

Did you install this Hard drive,,,did you set the jumper pins in the proper position i.e: Master - Slave - cable select??
If you did nothing to the computer and it's losing the hard drive,,then it could be the Cmos battery going dead,,make thge bios lose it's saved settings.

Hello,

Go to the bios setup during boot & check whether this drive is shown there. If not, Check whether you have connected the drive rightly. i.e. the connections for IDE cable & power cable are securely connected.

Also, check whether you have setup the master/slave/cable select jumpers rightly..
Set the jumpers on your hard drive for cable select. If you have another drive also connected via same cable, then set the jumpers on that drive for cable select mode.

Alternatively, set one of the hard drives as master & other one as slave.

Also make sure that you have connected the cable in the right direction. Long leg of cable towards the motherboard side & short leg towards the hard drives side.

Hope this helps you friend..

Install first the media center on the primary harddrive with master jumpered.. when everything is working fine... then proceed to
the next harddrive. Set its jumper to slave not cable select and install xp pro, it ask you for an option to have dual boot then select the location of windows to be installed...

Hoping this helps... Fixya!!!