Posted by DAN on September 21, 19100 at 22:03:26:
In Reply to: Maxtor won't take windows ME! posted by Paul on September 13, 19100 at 08:05:09:
YOU MUST HAVE FORMATED IT IN A DIFFERENT COMPUTER
SINCE YOU SAID IT WOULDN'T WORK IN THE EMACHINE,,
IT SOUNDS AS YOU HAVE THE SLAVE JUMPERED FOR MASTER,,YOU CAN CHECK PROPER JUMPER SETTINGS HERE AT THE TECH PAGE,,JUST CLICK ON JUMPER SETTINGS ON THE LEFT,,IF IT IS SET TO SLAVE,,TOTALLY DISCONECT THE CD THEN TRY IT,,IF IT STILL WON'T WORK TRY CHANGING MASTER SETTINGS,,IF IT IS A
WESTERN DIGATAL AS WELL AS OTHERS THESE OFTEN DO NOT BE SET TO MASTER EVEN WHEN A SLAVE IS ATTACHED,,NO JUMPER ON MASTER,,IF THE BIOS WON'T DETECT IT AS SLAVE THE CABLE IS BACK WARDS
OR THE SECONDARY IDE IS DISABLED IN BIOS,,THE RED STRIPE ON THE IDE CABLE GOES NEAREST THE POWER
PLUG
DAN
: I recently bought an emachines computer with windows me preloaded on the hard drive. When I tried to install the slave hard drive from my old gateway it wouldnt take and only says operating system not found. I reformatted the drive in dos so I know it is empty but I need to know how get it to take with my new system.
: Helllllllpppp!