CD & Hard Drive Master/Slave Questions

[Jitsu]

Please learn me on master and slave stuffs. Does this have anything to do with teh IDE cables, something in bios, the little jumper pieces.... help meh.

A game that requires me to have the CD in to play is coming up with errors. I just built this computer. It's saying that the CD is not in there, when infact it is. I can go into run, d:/ and it will show up that the CD drive is reading the disk and it is displaying the info on teh CD, but when I go to exec the game it will not confirm that it is there and ask's me to put it in there.

Does this have somethign to do with master/slave? I only have one CD drive in my comp right now.

 

[Jitsu]

ttt

 

[KarenMarie]

Ok, What OS are you using? What is the exact error message?

Normally when using master/slave you need to make sure that the IDE cables are in the correct position. Normally, the first one is slave and the end one is master. Then make sure the jumpers on the back of the drives are set correctly. Usually I just set them both to cable select.

when you boot your computer, hit DELETE before windows starts and go into the BIOS. From there you can see if your drive is recognized or not. You should be able to aurodetect it.

 

[Jitsu]

The drive is detected... Do you have any diagrams on the jumpers? Do the jumpers determine master/slave?

OS: WIN XP PRO

 

[blazerazor]

The hd should have the jumper setting on the case of the hd. But the one farthest from you is normally Master, next is Slave, next is cable select, next i dont know. You cant hurt it, just put it in one, boot. Next one- Repeat. Until it works. The long end of the ribbon goes to the Board, dont use the middle (unless its a slave), other end to HD.
Make sure its plugged into the primary ide, secondary is for CD. Same deal there. FYI The red line on the ribbon is your Hot one and is pin one.

 

[Jitsu]

I cant hurt my new DVD drive by hooking it up to the IDE cables and not having the jumper set correct, right?
Should I have the CD drive that I want to use more as the master on that ide cable.. or does it not matter? Should I mess with the jumpers or not on either of the drives?

 

[Jitsu]

^?

 

[databyss]

What game are you trying to play?

Maybe purchase a real cd for it?

Some games are good at detecting copied cd's.

 

[Jitsu]

I'm playing raven shield and it is a purchased copy.

 

[Accord99]

Do you have the latest patch, perhaps you're suffering from Ubisoft's copy protection which prevented the game from loading if it detected any virtual drive. The latest patch should eliminate this problem.