Your welcome.

most of the time the jumper settings are on a label attached to the drive.

a helpful green check mark would be appreciated for the effort!!

"mk" wrote:

> I did more research on the jumper settings for the Samsung drive on the
> Samsung we site and found another jumper setting that could be used. That
> setting worked and now the drive is acknowledged as the Primary Master.
> thank you all very much for your input. Greatly appreciated.
>
> "mk" <mk@unknown.net> wrote in message
> news:etWf9b3AGHA.2908@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> > I've tried about everything including different jumper settings, another
> > cable, testing the Samsung drive,connecting only the Samsung drive as
> > "Master" without the other hard drive at all. I've also deleted the
> > partition on each drive so that neither has an OS installed. Even though
> > the computer won't boot, when I check the BIOS the Samsung drive is always
> > showing as the Slave when connected either alone or with the other drive.
> > The only way I get a normal Master/slave indication is when the Master
> > cable end goes to the Maxtor drive and the Slave end to the Samsung drive.
> > Then I get Maxtor as Primary Master and Samsung as Primary Slave.
> > "Dixonian69" <Dixonian69@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> > news:26D7A516-F42F-4F82-B30C-DE2999E0DB0E@microsoft.com...
> >> set jumper for
> >> Samsung as Master and master on ribbon cable
> >> Maxtor as slave and slave on ribbon cable
> >>
> >> OR
> >>
> >> set jumper for
> >> Samsunsung as Cable Select and master on ribbon cable
> >> Maxtor as Cable Select and slave on ribbon cable
> >>
> >> "mk" wrote:
> >>
> >>> Just to add to my last post: I tried switching the ribbon cable, using
> >>> the
> >>> "primary master" end on the Maxtor drive and the "primary slave" end on
> >>> the
> >>> Samsung drive and both drives were recognized. But I would still like
> >>> the
> >>> Primary Master to be the Samsung drive.
> >>>
> >>> "mk" <mk@unknown.net> wrote in message
> >>> news:Osg9EbvAGHA.740@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> >>> >I have a Dell dimension 4100 with the original primary master 10GB
> >>> >Maxtor
> >>> >hard drive and a primary slave 60GB Maxtor drive. The 60GB drive was
> >>> >added
> >>> >a few years ago. The OS is Win XP Pro and resides on the 60 GB drive.
> >>> >All
> >>> >has worked well for years.
> >>> >
> >>> > I just moved the 60GB drive to a new computer and replaced it with
> >>> > another
> >>> > hard drive (30GB Samsung) in the original Dell computer. I changed
> >>> > the
> >>> > drives so that the Samsung drive would be the primary master and the
> >>> > Maxtor 10GB the primary slave. However, the bios will only
> >>> > acknowledge
> >>> > the primary slave position, no matter which drive I connect to it. I
> >>> > have
> >>> > tried the jumpers in both the Master/Slave and Cable Select
> >>> > positions.
> >>> > Previously it was set up in the Cable Select jumper positions.
> >>> >
> >>> > Why won't the bios now recognize the Primary Master position? Can
> >>> > anyone
> >>> > give me some ideas?
> >>> >
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >
> >
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