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Old 07-23-2004, 09:01 PM   #5 of 5
Cary_H
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Your HD is likely the master drive on your primary IDE channel, the CD Rom drive the slave.
Your burner was probably the master on the secondary IDE channel. (if you are running RAID, I'm not the guy to be taking advice from)

If you set the new drive's jumpers for 'cable select' and failed to position it correctly on the IDE ribbon cable it will not work. If you plugged the cable in the new drive the wrong way around this may also be your problem.
You ought to have two IDE ribbons from the motherboard's IDE bus. One, connected to the motherboard's primary pins, the other to the secondary right next to the primary. The ribbon cable will have one edge with a red stripe running it's full length so you'll line it up correctly into the drive's slot. It won't work if the ribbon is plugged in upside down in the drive, so that's where I'd be looking first if you either disconnected the ribbon from the board, or weren't aware that the ribbon's plugs have a right and left.
Once you're confident you've got it right, you'll want to go into the BIOS on startup to tell it where you've put what.
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