Hard drive Question

[Russian Mafia]

I just recently built my first computer. Everything seems to be running fine, I just don't have an OS on yet. When I boot up the computer it says that there is no IDE hard drive that is master. The hard drive came wrapped in bubble wrap with no booklet, so I can't check there. The thing is, this is the only internal hard drive I will be using for this computer, so would I need to make it master? This is the one. Thanks for your help. :thumbs:

 

[MRG]

An easy fix my friend. Simply set the jumpers at the back of the hard drive to Master. It'll be a small black pin. See pic below. Make sure that if you have a CD/DVD drive connected to the same IDE ribbon cable, that the jumper on it is not set to Master as well. There will be a Slave setting. Also the IDE cable will have a master & a Slave connector as well.
http://www.wpclipart.com/computer/cables/ide_cable.png

The below pic is a good indication of what to have the drive set to jumper wise. Also the HDD should say "MASTER" & "SLAVE". Like the CD/DVD setting below, it might look like "MA" & "SL"
http://www.networkclue.com/images/peripherals/jumpers.gif

Imagine the pic below is the back of your CD/DVD drive. You'll want the jumper to be under the "SL"
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf-JAVA/Doc/images/c00180569.jpg

You may also be able to set the drive priority in the Bios. Might want to look & see.

Below is a pic of a WD Hard Drive. Note where the jumper is set At next to the Power connector? Well look directly up from there. See the small pic on the HDD itself? It's the schematic for where the jumper for the HDD needs to be placed if it's going to be a MA or SL drive. Sometimes, if you only have 1 HDD installed, you can pull out the jumper pin all together & only have the CD/DVD drive set. Yuo can also have the HDD on it's own Ribbon cable. Keep in mind that all IDE ribbon cables are NOT the same.
http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/img/16837_hard-disk.gif


-MRG

 

[JFry]

If it's an IDE drive it should be set to master. Usually the label on the hard drive tells you how to set the jumper on the back of the drive to configure it for master. Then plug it into the middle connector on the IDE ribbon.

If it's a sata drive it will connect with a smaller cable and the whole master/slave thing is irrelevant.

 

[function9]

Well if it's the drive you linked to it's a SATA drive, not an IDE (unless they started making raptor drives with the IDE interface).

First, look in the manual for your motherboard, see which SATA connector they list as #1, make sure the cable from the drive is plugged into that connector.

Second, go into the BIOS, under CHIPSET OPTIONS/FEATURES there should be an option to switch between SATA RAID or SATA IDE (something like that). You want the SATA IDE setting.

Third, go into BOOT SETTINGS/OPTIONS and make sure it's at the top of the BOOT PRIORITY list.

As far as I know, the MA/SL/CS jumpers on the back of a SATA drive do nothing. I don't bother with them and from my experience they usually come set to MA as default. If you can't follow the directions I listed, please post what motherboard you have for more detailed instructions.

 

[Russian Mafia]

Thank you all. I will look into what Function said.

 

[MRG]

WTF!

Soon after reading Functions post, I re-read the original post & saw that there was a hyper link. I swear that I didn't see that link before. If you in fact have that Raptor drive, completely dis-regard my post, as it does not apply to SATA & the drive that the link goes to, is a SATA-150 drive.

Damn. I need to slow down & read everything before I go off all gung-ho in a post.... lol

-MRG