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Maxtor 20.4GB 7200rpm ATA-100 HDD p/n 5T020H2 ATA-100 Hard Drive Questions & Answers
Hi, I have a maxtor SATA drive with my OS
It will not boot because the new drive is been seen as the primary and not the secondary drive.
On teh new drive you will find (at teh cable connection point) a set of pins with a jumper) this jumper needs to be set so the drive is in either the slave or cable select mode and not teh master mode
Someone just gave me a maxtor hard drive model
you can install it as a "slave" harddrive by connecting it on the second spot on the IDE ribon (grey looking connection
, connecting to first harddrive). but before you do that, you have to
change to "jumper" to match the "slave" on the back of the second hard
drive. then connecting it. so where you turn the computer on, the system wil see it as a second hard drive and u can see what is in it. and use it as a storage if need to be,
Maxtor External Hard Drive No Power
I assume it is a USB connection? Does it also have a power adaptor or a USB dongle that has 2 USB connectors? If you cannot get it to power up, the only other option to retrieve your data is to take the HD out of the case and connect it to a PC or laptop using a SSD or SATA to USB adapter and see if you can get the PC to recognize it.
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