I had two Hard Drives w/ DVD-Rom plugged into my computer and they worked perfectly without any problem. Now, I bought new Hard Drive and wanted to remove my old one by placing this new one. I opened up PC, set jumpers as they need to go, turned on my PC, and then in BIOS it says that both of my HDDs are not installed. However I tried, I couldn't make them both work. Only if one HDD is set as master, without a slave, it will work. I unplugged my DVD-rom and set IDE cable from it into new HDD, and then they both worked. What could this mean? Is there possibility that IDE cable may be bad?
It is kinda like this:
First HDD - Master
Second HDD - Slave
( doesn't work - when I plug my Slave IDE into HDD, both HDDs won't work )
First HDD - Master
Second HDD - Unplugged
( works )
First HDD - Master
Second HDD - Master
( works - but then I don't have anymore IDE cables to connect to my DVD-Rom)
It is kinda like this:
First HDD - Master
Second HDD - Slave
( doesn't work - when I plug my Slave IDE into HDD, both HDDs won't work )
First HDD - Master
Second HDD - Unplugged
( works )
First HDD - Master
Second HDD - Master
( works - but then I don't have anymore IDE cables to connect to my DVD-Rom)