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Originally Posted by IneRtia dRaft
Stall maxtor hard drive 40GB.
Bios does not detect primary ide hard drive, but detect slave ide hard drive.
When in boot, the screen shows up with a error message: "Drive is not ready and the system is halted."
Sometimes when the hard drive and the primary are being detected, the computer is really slow, as in no resond from the hard drive.
No noise is coming from the hard drive or a flash of a busy signal light.
Can it be a bad hard drive? Or could it be a power plug problem ?
When installing, the new slave hard drive came along with a new ide cable so i swapped cables.
Before installing the slave hard drive, the same error message happened again with the primary hard drive.
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Hi, If the problem occured upon installation of a new drive then you problem may just be jumpers. Remember that there are two types of cables. With old type cables jumpers must be MASTER and SLAVE (MA and SL). With newer cables jumpers will be CS (Cable Select) for both drives. If in doubt, try both type of jumpering. One should work. If CABLE SELECT works then position on the connectors determines which drive is C: and which is D:. Luck, Jim