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over my head
« on: July 11, 2012, 07:45:23 am »
hi all.hope this is the right place for this post.here we go.
last week i got a new pc,deep joy.there was nothing wrong
with my old one.it had 2 hard drives one of them bigger than
the one on my new rig.so i took it out,put it in the new rig and it
works fine.i say to my boy,you can have my old pc,it will play most
of the games you want it to.so i take it up to his room,power up
no bootmgr.what.....all i did was take the big drive out.the drive
still spins.the motherboard is a ga-g41m-combo and the hard drive
is sata..i want to put windows7 64 bit on there fresh for my boy.
is there a way you can set the board up so it can see whats in your rig.
dont know much about slave and master settings.
thanks for any help

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Re: over my head
« Reply #1 on: July 11, 2012, 08:58:26 am »
Hi and welcome.

From what you have said it would seem that you have removed the main hard drive from your old machine and that was the one that had the operating system on it.  If I am right you are going to have to install the new Windows setup onto the drive that is still in the system. By doing this it will put the bootmanager and everything else that is required back onto the smaller drive. If it is a PATA drive then you may well have to move the jumper on the back of it to make it "Master" as it probably was the "Slave" previously.
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Re: over my head
« Reply #2 on: July 11, 2012, 09:29:14 am »
hi mantis.i will try what you said later when by baby girl goes for a kip.
if i unplug the hard drive then plug it back in will the whole thing not
pick it up and reinstall the drive.
thanks again

Re: over my head
« Reply #3 on: July 11, 2012, 10:43:50 am »
hi again.yes the drive is the slave but how do i make it master in
the bios

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Re: over my head
« Reply #4 on: July 11, 2012, 11:49:04 am »
If it is a PATA drive there will be a row of pins on the back of the drive itself and usually there is a little diagram on the label telling you which pins to put the jumper across to make the drive master or slave or even cable select. If you still have a problem with this post your drive model details and I will see if I can help you.

Just restarting the computer will not make the drive reconfigure itself I'm afraid.
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Re: over my head
« Reply #5 on: July 11, 2012, 01:34:24 pm »
sorry for wasting your time.ita a maxtor model.6h500f0.500gb sata
serial ata

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Re: over my head
« Reply #6 on: July 12, 2012, 12:55:31 am »
Here is a link so you can watch the video will make it much easier.

http://www.ehow.com/video_4978891_change-masterslave-designation-hard-drive.html

Now i know you have a sata drive so the connections for power are different but jumpers are 99% the same across brands.
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Re: over my head
« Reply #7 on: July 12, 2012, 06:38:35 pm »
hi .still no joy.i think i have to make the maxtor the master,and not the slave
just cant find the bios setting to do that, sata 0 is what i think it should be on.
dont know how to get it to 0.bios is finding it as master only in the wrong place..
today i took the hard drive out stuck it in the new pc and put windows on it then
back in the old pc thinking that would do the trick...still no bootmgr.finger nails
down to the bone,hair out.
keep them thoughts coming cause i need your help
thanks again

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Re: over my head
« Reply #8 on: July 12, 2012, 08:41:25 pm »
If it is a SATA drive there is no such thing as Master and Slave so don't waste your time. A SATA drive works differently and there is only one per channel so there is no master/slave configuration.

I think what you have done is not formatted the drive as the primary drive for holding the operating system. You will need to run Windows setup and let it find the drive before formatting it. It should be more or less automatic.
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Re: over my head
« Reply #9 on: July 13, 2012, 03:41:47 am »
I agree with mantis. You might have to stick it in old puter and go to disk management and format it and make it primiary like matis said then stick it in other puter and put disk in and load off of disk. See pretty much what mantis said..lol
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