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June 20th 04, 01:22 AM
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Removing second hard drive
I now have two 4g hard drives. Want to remove one of
them. Every time I disconnect the hard drive I can not boot the computer. Wants a disk to boot. Have changed the BIOS and fdisk the second hard drive. Computer shows no hard drive, but also show the primary as disabled. Help 
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June 20th 04, 04:40 AM
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Removing second hard drive
In order to boot from a hard drive it must be set as active using FDISK. My
guess is the one you disconnect is the active one. You'll have to boot from a floppy, run FDISK, make the one you want to boot from active (and make sure the boot files are on it), reboot and it should boot. "Car" wrote in message ... I now have two 4g hard drives. Want to remove one of them. Every time I disconnect the hard drive I can not boot the computer. Wants a disk to boot. Have changed the BIOS and fdisk the second hard drive. Computer shows no hard drive, but also show the primary as disabled. Help
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June 23rd 04, 09:31 PM
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Removing second hard drive
If the drives are Western Digital then there must not be a jumper at all for
a single drive. "Herbert West" wrote in message ... On Sat, 19 Jun 2004 20:40:49 -0700, "Jerry" wrote: In order to boot from a hard drive it must be set as active using FDISK. My guess is the one you disconnect is the active one. You'll have to boot from a floppy, run FDISK, make the one you want to boot from active (and make sure the boot files are on it), reboot and it should boot. Also: There are "master" and 'Slave" jumpers at the rear of each hard drive. If only one drive is attached, it must be set to "Master" or the computer won't boot. "Car" wrote in message ... I now have two 4g hard drives. Want to remove one of them. Every time I disconnect the hard drive I can not boot the computer. Wants a disk to boot. Have changed the BIOS and fdisk the second hard drive. Computer shows no hard drive, but also show the primary as disabled. Help
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June 24th 04, 04:06 AM
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Removing second hard drive
-----Original Message----- If the drives are Western Digital then there must not be a jumper at all for a single drive. The single drive MUST use the plug on the END of the IDE bus cable. The plug further down the cable is for the second (slave) drive. Good Luck. BarryG
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June 24th 04, 05:20 AM
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Removing second hard drive
Yep, a single drive is neither a master nor a slave.
"BarryG" wrote in message ... -----Original Message----- If the drives are Western Digital then there must not be a jumper at all for a single drive. The single drive MUST use the plug on the END of the IDE bus cable. The plug further down the cable is for the second (slave) drive. Good Luck. BarryG
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