Removing second hard drive

[Car]

I now have two 4g hard drives. Want to remove one of
them. Every time I disconnect the hard drive I can not
boot the computer. Wants a disk to boot. Have changed
the BIOS and fdisk the second hard drive. Computer shows
no hard drive, but also show the primary as disabled. Help

[Jerry]

In order to boot from a hard drive it must be set as active using FDISK. My
guess is the one you disconnect is the active one. You'll have to boot from
a floppy, run FDISK, make the one you want to boot from active (and make
sure the boot files are on it), reboot and it should boot.

"Car" > wrote in message
...
> I now have two 4g hard drives. Want to remove one of
> them. Every time I disconnect the hard drive I can not
> boot the computer. Wants a disk to boot. Have changed
> the BIOS and fdisk the second hard drive. Computer shows
> no hard drive, but also show the primary as disabled. Help

[Jerry]

If the drives are Western Digital then there must not be a jumper at all for
a single drive.

"Herbert West" > wrote in message
...
> On Sat, 19 Jun 2004 20:40:49 -0700, "Jerry" >
> wrote:
>
> >In order to boot from a hard drive it must be set as active using FDISK.
My
> >guess is the one you disconnect is the active one. You'll have to boot
from
> >a floppy, run FDISK, make the one you want to boot from active (and make
> >sure the boot files are on it), reboot and it should boot.
>
> Also:
>
> There are "master" and 'Slave" jumpers at the rear of each hard drive.
> If only one drive is attached, it must be set to "Master" or the
> computer won't boot.
>
>
> >"Car" > wrote in message
> ...
> >> I now have two 4g hard drives. Want to remove one of
> >> them. Every time I disconnect the hard drive I can not
> >> boot the computer. Wants a disk to boot. Have changed
> >> the BIOS and fdisk the second hard drive. Computer shows
> >> no hard drive, but also show the primary as disabled. Help
> >
>

[BarryG]

>-----Original Message-----
>If the drives are Western Digital then there must not be
a jumper at all for
>a single drive.
>


The single drive MUST use the plug on the END of the IDE
bus cable.
The plug further down the cable is for the second (slave)
drive.

Good Luck.
BarryG

[Steve Baron - KB3MM]

Yep, a single drive is neither a master nor a slave.

"BarryG" > wrote in message
...
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >If the drives are Western Digital then there must not be
> a jumper at all for
> >a single drive.
> >
>
>
> The single drive MUST use the plug on the END of the IDE
> bus cable.
> The plug further down the cable is for the second (slave)
> drive.
>
> Good Luck.
> BarryG