Aseem Nasnodkar
In the zone
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HOW TO CONNECT THE HDD
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Friends let me first confess - I know nuts of hardware. So please bare with me!
I have 2 HDD's. One the Primary Master with XP and the 2nd Secondary Slave(or somethin' like that) with 98 pre-installed. One fine day my 2nd HDD the old one was making a lot of noise. And on restarting the system the computer did not boot from any of the HDD's. So I opened it up. But could not figure out what was the fault so I just touched a few busses and restarted the system. Only to reaslise that my floppy disks failed and then the comp booted in-through the 2nd HDD with 98.
Oops! And yes it did not even work well. Every 5 minutes it gives an error. That it cannot wite to C: . So now nothing is working.
Is my floppy drive not working because of my primary master HDD not connected?
What to do Please HELP!!!
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WHAT I WANT TO DO:
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# Remove my 2nd HDD completely.
# Attach only 1st HDD to the system.
# Work-out my Floppy drive.
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MY COMPUTER ARCHITECHTURE:
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# There is one bus connected to my Motherboard on HDD connection port CN1. Which at halfway is connected to the 2nd HDD and the OTHER END FREE.
# There is NO BUS CONNECTION to my new and 1st HDD except the power connection.
# My combo drive is connected to the mother board HDD connection port CN2.
# All connections of my floppy drive look to be proper.
How should I do the connections now? Please tell me in detail. Are there any jumper settings. Well i don't even know what are jumpers. So please tell me in detail. Its urgent. All my data is on the 1st HDD.
I don't want to land up paying my engineer and yet knowing Nuts!!!
ASEEM NASNODKAR
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HOW TO CONNECT THE HDD
==========================
Friends let me first confess - I know nuts of hardware. So please bare with me!
I have 2 HDD's. One the Primary Master with XP and the 2nd Secondary Slave(or somethin' like that) with 98 pre-installed. One fine day my 2nd HDD the old one was making a lot of noise. And on restarting the system the computer did not boot from any of the HDD's. So I opened it up. But could not figure out what was the fault so I just touched a few busses and restarted the system. Only to reaslise that my floppy disks failed and then the comp booted in-through the 2nd HDD with 98.
Oops! And yes it did not even work well. Every 5 minutes it gives an error. That it cannot wite to C: . So now nothing is working.
Is my floppy drive not working because of my primary master HDD not connected?
What to do Please HELP!!!
--------------------------
WHAT I WANT TO DO:
--------------------------
# Remove my 2nd HDD completely.
# Attach only 1st HDD to the system.
# Work-out my Floppy drive.
---------------------------------------
MY COMPUTER ARCHITECHTURE:
---------------------------------------
# There is one bus connected to my Motherboard on HDD connection port CN1. Which at halfway is connected to the 2nd HDD and the OTHER END FREE.
# There is NO BUS CONNECTION to my new and 1st HDD except the power connection.
# My combo drive is connected to the mother board HDD connection port CN2.
# All connections of my floppy drive look to be proper.
How should I do the connections now? Please tell me in detail. Are there any jumper settings. Well i don't even know what are jumpers. So please tell me in detail. Its urgent. All my data is on the 1st HDD.
I don't want to land up paying my engineer and yet knowing Nuts!!!
ASEEM NASNODKAR