Multiple hard drives

[rjetman]

I have a 40 g hd ( slave ) mounted internial for storage I have 3 differant HD's ( master ) I interchange using a " Rhino drive " slide mount My problem is that only my original HD ( Master ) will recognize the data on the slave drive. Help please

 

[DaiShan]

could you please clarify what the problem is, I don't understand.

 

[rjetman]

When I change ( slide in ) my master HD windows explorer dose not recognize my slave drive. If I unplug the cables & reboot it will recognize the slave drive but not the data on it. It's like a fresh drive that needs formating. My 3 master drives that I swap are for #1 Work #2 Play #3 Dual boot Win 98 / XP ( at least thats what I'm trying to setup )
all Fat 32 so that I can use the data ( slave ) as needed.

 

[Usul]

Just an idea, but could be because Windows changes the drive letters.

also, WinXP does not automatically shows up ned drives.

Finally, make sure the slave drive is not compressed.

 

[rjetman]

The drive letters are the same on all drives C: ( master ) D: ( slave )
XP is not installed yet
No disk compresion
any ideas will be useful

 

[Dragnov]

I'm assuming all the drives show up in cmos/bios? Any problems detecting them? I don't swap my master/main hard drive ever but I do have 2 other removeable drives that I swap sometimes. I never had a problem.

Make sure to set the jumpers for each hard drive to set it as master/slave and not only by the cable. And make sure that your computer is trying to boot off of the master always.

 

[rjetman]

Yes it shows in the bois,it dose boot to master,the jumpers are all set
Only with the original drive that I set up with dose any of the data ( files & such ) show . When I swap out the master drive to another Master the slave drive dose not show any thing on it.

 

[Usul]

Try to use different IDE channels for masters and slave.

 

[rjetman]

How do I do that. Is that in the bios or something, Im not afriad to try I really want to get this to word.
Thanks for any help given

 

[Usul]

Use two different plugs on your motherboard, two different IDE cables.