devices 0 master and 1 master typically will signify that 2 dif. cables.
make sure that the hard drive is on a cable all by it self.
second i would make sure that the jumper is in the master position... there should be a chart on the lable of your hard drive, if not the maker of the hard drive should have the jumper settings for that model on thier web site.
second make sure that the dvd and cdrom's are set (i would recomend the following) dvd rom as master and cd rom as slave on the same cable.
if your motherboard designates one IDE plug as 0 or primary use that for the HD, and the secondary for the removable storage. if they are not labled they may be dif. in color... typically one will be blue or something... that will be primary.
if that does not work, try to find an old (working) HD or borrow a friends (someone you trust as you want a safe hard drive free of infections) and try a dif. hard drive...
just to complicate matters i will say you can test the IDE cable and connectors by swapping the cables for the cdrom + dvdrom with the HD and see if it still detects them... to rule out the possibility that only one cable is working.
let me know if/when you've tried all this.
thanks
make sure that the hard drive is on a cable all by it self.
second i would make sure that the jumper is in the master position... there should be a chart on the lable of your hard drive, if not the maker of the hard drive should have the jumper settings for that model on thier web site.
second make sure that the dvd and cdrom's are set (i would recomend the following) dvd rom as master and cd rom as slave on the same cable.
if your motherboard designates one IDE plug as 0 or primary use that for the HD, and the secondary for the removable storage. if they are not labled they may be dif. in color... typically one will be blue or something... that will be primary.
if that does not work, try to find an old (working) HD or borrow a friends (someone you trust as you want a safe hard drive free of infections) and try a dif. hard drive...
just to complicate matters i will say you can test the IDE cable and connectors by swapping the cables for the cdrom + dvdrom with the HD and see if it still detects them... to rule out the possibility that only one cable is working.
let me know if/when you've tried all this.
thanks