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TillyLala

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Posted: 30th Nov 2010 14:59 Edited at: 30th Nov 2010 15:03

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Hey everyone...

As part of my course I am doing, I am currently creating a website to do with hardware. So far so good, until about 10 minutes ago.

I need to write about hard drive configuration, more specifically - master/slave. I've done various google searches and I'm still clueless

Any help is greatly appreciated

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Am I right in saying that basically your master drive is your 'C' drive, where everything gets booted from? And any slave drives are extra hard drives? :S

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Posted: 30th Nov 2010 17:45

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its the configuration on the hard drive, theres usually a switch. Ontop of that there is 2 cables that you have. The master cable (eg C:\) goes into the master HDD. the slave cable (comes off the master cable), would attach to your second hard drive.

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TillyLala

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Posted: 30th Nov 2010 17:50

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Thanks

I've had a chat with a friend and between us we've come up with this...

Hard Drive Configuration: Master/Slave
When your computer boots it looks for a master boot record on your master drive - this tells it where to load the operating system from on that drive. If it can't find one then it looks at the slave drive for the same thing. This however is becoming obsolete, the BIOS handles which drive is the primary on SATA motherboards however Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) is taking over the role that BIOS has played for 25 years.

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Posted: 1st Dec 2010 12:35

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Thank goodness - I have no fond memories of the trouble master/slave configuration used to cause. Ohh, the fidly little jumper needs to be set to master, better dissasemble half my PC then ehh!. It was a nightmare.

These days I usually just put it to cable select, then set the boot order from BIOS.

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Posted: 1st Dec 2010 12:45

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Quote: "the fidly little jumper needs to be set to master"

I hate it when the switch breaks

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Posted: 1st Dec 2010 17:59

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It took me 30 minutes to assemble a whole computer,but took me 1 hour to make the hard drive/cd rom work.

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Posted: 1st Dec 2010 20:13

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I've never had a problem with either of those, but I did spend hours on getting the floppy drive to work as A: (that was quite a few years ago, obviously).

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