Short and to the point, my modded xbox acted a fool so i took the HDD out and place it in my pc as "slave". The BIOS picks up the disk (disk making loud siren lie noise for the first 5 seconds)but will not load windows because the "slave maxtor 120GB" is givng and error. If i turn off the "slave Maxtor" the PC boots fine etc. When i check disk management i don't see the Maxtor HDD which make sense since i turn it off in Bios. So how can i get the Maxtor HDD to show in the PC since i have to turn it off for the pc to start?
check in your bios to see if your c:drive(if ide) is master or slave because if slave then that is why the xbox drive caused yours not to boot as they conflicted.
I did some reading and my master drive is master/ slave setting and my slave drive is set to slave. It's nothing wrong with the slave IDE wire because i have an HDD that was previously connected to it and is currently connected to it. I also switch around the jumper on both just to see what's poppin but no luck. My next option as far as i research is to by a USB case and place the hard drive in it to see if it works. I need the information off the HDD because i think it's dying.
can you attach it to the secondary ide port by itself to pull off the info? why is the c:drive set to master\slave as should be master or slave not both?
It's a WD is my c:drive and that's the only setting it have. Other HDD have different jumper settings and that's the one this WD HDD have. But i choose the master only but that didn't work either, the manual says if i have a slave set it to master w/slave. But i tired all kind of jumper setting trust me on that because im desperate to get my files off especially my roms
wd has to be jumpered as master if there is a slave on same data cable. if no slave present on that cable then remove all jumpers off the wd drive.
Yeah i did that. Master single and Master/slave on separate tries. Right now im just wishing the USB enclosure works when i receive it.
