Unsolved
This post is more than 5 years old
9 Posts
0
8403
Hard Drive jumpers on Dimension 2400
I definitely want to upgrade the HD on my old 2400 and maybe add a second HD while I'm at it or later. I was examining the factory supplied drive and noticed that the jumper was set to "cable select". Just out of curiosity I moved the jumper to "master or single drive" and the system wouldn't boot or even recognize the drive. BIOS setup reported the existing drive as an unknown device. Oddly enough the system diagnostics on the utility partition recognized it as a hard drive but the BIOS did not. Seems a little weird to me. But this of course brings up the question of how I can have a master and a slave drive if the system doesn't recognize the master jumper, and this being the case even if I go with only one larger drive how am I going to Clone or Ghost my existing drive on to the new drive? Oh, the existing drive is a Seagate 40gb.
shesagordie
10 Elder
10 Elder
•
46K Posts
0
December 16th, 2006 02:00
Post the issue in the appropriate Board, where they will be answered.
shesagordie
10 Elder
10 Elder
•
46K Posts
0
December 16th, 2006 02:00
Post the issue in the appropriate Board, where they will be answered.
jackshack
6.4K Posts
0
December 16th, 2006 02:00
Message Edited by JackShack on 12-15-200610:24 PM
noahlamy
9 Posts
0
December 16th, 2006 16:00
My PC has only a single drive cable on the HD but a 2 drive cable on the secondary channel for the CD/DVD drives. I see the different colors on the connectors and the ribbon cable is labelled for Drive 0 and Drive 1.
noahlamy
9 Posts
0
December 16th, 2006 16:00
My PC has a single device cable for the HD and a dual device cable for the CD/DVD. I notice that the HD cable has many more (double?) conductors than the CD cable. I guess this is what you were talking about. So I have to get a cable with 80 conductors and black/grey/blue connectors?
jackshack
6.4K Posts
0
December 16th, 2006 16:00
shesagordie
10 Elder
10 Elder
•
46K Posts
0
December 16th, 2006 17:00
Post the issue in the appropriate Board, where they will be answered.