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hard drive jumpers?

post #1 of 9
12/22/04 at 7:57pm
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I need to set my laptop hard drive up as a slave drive in my desktop since i can't boot from the laptop hdd currently... I pulled out the hdd from the laptop and figured the whole pin/jumper deal would be clearly diagramed near the pins on the label or something, but it looks like it doesn't even have jumpers, and the diagram doesn't really say anything about which pins correspond with what setup (master, slave, cs). I really have no experience with hard drives since i've only ever used systems that had a single hard drive, so can anyone explain this a little further? Do i need to buy jumpers separately or is it just that i have no clue what they look like?

EDIT: in case it's important, we're talking about the 60GB 7,200rpm hard drive
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post #2 of 9
12/22/04 at 8:03pm
What you need to do is go down to your local computer shop and get a 2.5" drive converter. It is a little board that plugs into your drive connector and gives you a normal ATA interface and power connector. They are pretty cheap too.. I used them alot to perform external virus checks on laptop drives from my virus scanning CPU.
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post #3 of 9
12/22/04 at 8:10pm
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luckily our local CompUSA had the converter in stock so I picked one of those up earlier today... but now I'm just worried that without the proper jumper settings my computer won't recognize it as a slave and will try to boot from it or something.
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post #4 of 9
12/22/04 at 8:33pm
just hook it up as a master on the secondary ide.
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post #5 of 9
12/22/04 at 10:28pm
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hooking it up to the secondary IDE as a master didn't work... when i started the computer i got a message saying something about an invalid boot disk, and asking me to insert a disk into drive A. Have you had this setup work for you before??? I guess i'll just go out tomorrow and buy some jumpers since they're only a couple bucks...
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post #6 of 9
12/22/04 at 10:34pm
Better off getting an external USB enclosure.
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post #7 of 9
12/22/04 at 10:37pm
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Originally Posted by Hunterzyph
Better off getting an external USB enclosure.
eh... one of those would probably cost too much to be worth it, before doing that i would just forget it and reformat the whole thing. I'm really only doing this to get my music collection and my documents for school, then once i have those saved i'm going to reformat it anyway. the adapter and jumpers for this only cost a total of $8 whereas an enclosure would probably be around $40
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post #8 of 9
12/22/04 at 11:36pm
$25 sound like too much?
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post #9 of 9
12/22/04 at 11:50pm
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Originally Posted by Hunterzyph
$25 sound like too much?
hrm... maybe when i go back to compUSA tomorrow i'll pick one up if they actually have them at that price. I guess I could always just return it and say it didn't work afterwards ...but that would be wrong
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