InterviewSolution
Saved Bookmarks
InterviewSolution
| 1. |
Solve : SATA Hard drive master/Slave? |
| Answer» <html><body><p>Have a SATA hard drive that went bad in desktop, want to use new SATA drive as master and old as slave so I can retrieve data from old drive how do I accomplish this. Have connected nut only shows one harddriveIf the drive cannot be recognized then the chances of file recovery are very slim unless you care to spend <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/big-896707" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about BIG">BIG</a> dollars on professional assistance.You must post exact status of old HD. If a stand alone booting of HD in CPU is <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/still-653256" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about STILL">STILL</a> possible or not. To be able to run a <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/diagnostic-7381410" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about DIAGNOSTIC">DIAGNOSTIC</a> Test.The first point to address is that SATA drives do NOT exercise "master/slave priority pin settings like Ide drives do. They are prioritized by virtue of what sata port you attach them to IE:pot "0","1" etc depending on the number of sata port the computer has <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/available-888895" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about AVAILABLE">AVAILABLE</a>. I am not certain (as i don't use sata very much) but it may be necessary to enter the BIOS to enable the <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/detection-245525" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about DETECTION">DETECTION</a> of more than one sata drive.Others may wish to comment on that aspect. Here is an article i found for you that explains sata rather well.truenorth<br/><a href="http://www.seagate.com/ww/v/index.jsp?locale=en-us&name=install-troubleshoot-sata-non-mac&vgnextoid=2b089d2c3c90e010VgnVCM100000dd04090aRCRD">http://www.seagate.com/ww/v/index.jsp?locale=en-us&name=install-troubleshoot-sata-non-mac&vgnextoid=2b089d2c3c90e010VgnVCM100000dd04090aRCRD</a>Quote from: scott1 on August 05, 2010, 01:33:23 AM</p><blockquote>Have a SATA hard drive that went bad in desktop, want to use new SATA drive as master and old as slave so I can retrieve data from old drive how do I accomplish this. Have connected nut only shows one harddrive<br/></blockquote>So, you have both drives connected to the motherboard? Please confirm this.Quote from: truenorth on August 06, 2010, 11:20:11 AM<blockquote>The first point to address is that SATA drives do NOT exercise "master/slave priority pin settings like Ide drives do. They are prioritized by virtue of what sata port you attach them to IE:pot "0","1" etc depending on the number of sata port the computer has available. I am not certain (as i don't use sata very much) but it may be necessary to enter the BIOS to enable the detection of more than one sata drive.Others may wish to comment on that aspect. Here is an article i found for you that explains sata rather well.<br/><br/>truenorth<br/></blockquote><br/><br/>My comment on this aspect? 100% correct Some motherboards even have SATA disabled entirely by default, or only have the SATA 0 Port enabled. And therefore when you go to use it, nothing is detected.</body></html> | |