When I first bought my PC I had one drive; a Western Digital 20 gig. I then added a "Maxtor 160 GB Diamond Plus 9" earlier this year, which has since become full of various media. About a month ago, the Western Digital died on me. Thankfully I was covered and Packard Bell sent out a replacement, a "Maxtor 20 gig Diamond Plus 8" which is now the OS drive with a copy of XP Home on it. All great so far huh?
However, when I tried to install the media drive as a slave to the OS drive, BIOS did not recognize it. The jumper settings are definitely correct (OS drive as master, media drive as slave), and I've even tried using a CS jumper setting on both drives but that doesn't work either. The only way the BIOS has recognized it so far is by putting the media drive on the secondary IDE port, as a master. However, this leaves me without a CD drive! The media drive had no problems whatsoever with my old Western Digital.
I have an IDE controller card lying around, but all my PCI slots are full and are essential.
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