Old hard drive died so now have a western digital wd5000aakx. have pins 5&6 jumpered but cannot instal windows xp as no drive is recognised even after loading the sata drivers that camw with the mother board (abit kv-80)

Jumper Settings: The Western Digital hard drive is factory set for single drive installation. Western Digital hard drives are shipped with a jumper in the neutral storage position (across pins 5 and 3) for future dual drive use. If you are installing the Western Digital hard drive as the only hard drive in your system, leave the jumper in the neutral storage position. Jumpers are not required for single hard drive installations.

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What do you mean by slow? Compared to an SSD the HDD would obviously be slower. If you're running your OS and everything off that HDD, try defragmenting it. Please run benchmark tests (e.g. Crystal Mark) and tell me the results you get! Typically you should get 120MB/s for your type of hard drive.

There are normally no jumper settings on a SATA HDD as you can only connect one drive per SATA port, hence every drive is a Master on its own port.
You can set Boot Priority within the BIOS settings if you have more than one drive attached.

jumper between pins 5 & 6. http://www.wdc.com/en/library/eide/2579-001037.pdf for more info

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.

Jumper off will set the drive to slave. If you can connect both drives to the same ribbon cable with the master on the end & the slave to the second connector. Look at your bios as win is booting up to see if shows the drive as slave, you will not be able to copy windows as a operating system off of the drive, but should be able to copy files.

Good luck on your endevors.

Lee

Connect it on hardisk enclosure then removed all pins
then connect it usb this serves as an usb flashdisk

u ll have a jumper which is located at the back where u hv ur power supply pin.. there u ll hv one pin with 6 needles on which a plastic jumper ll be there only on 2 of the six needles. that plastic jumper may be in slave mode do remove the jumper and place it in master mode.....
thnkyou

Hi,

The jumpers on the Seagate must be set to slave.

otherwise they are conflicting for the Active partion and bootloader.

Regards
Richard.

Hi, A couple of ideas: 1. There are 3 versions of this motherboard: Dragon Plus, V1.0 & V2.0, perhaps your BIOS needs an update to be able to recognize the new HD. This of course would require flashing; 2. There are two variations of a WD SATA hard drive: Serial ATA amd Serial ATA II; 3. Re Jumper settings: the eight-pin jumper block is only used to enable power management on the drive. There are no master/slave settings since there is only one drive per cable; 4. If you are fresh installing Windows on it, you need to press F6 when asked by the Windows Installer and follow on-screen instructions. Hope this be of some help/idea. Post back how things turn up or should you need further information.