I had the same problem a while back with an e-machine system which came
with some off brand HD. If all that you are going to is use it for is a
secondary drive, you could just put it on your second IDE port. If that
IDE port already has two drives attached, move the unit set as the
secondary drive over to the primary IDE port and see if it will
function.

Dennis Noble
361-808-9363


> At 09:53 PM 10/4/2002, Mike McNeil wrote:
> >Hello, I was wondering if anybody could help me out with a Maxtor
hard
> >drive? I have currently two hard drives in my desktop pc.  The one is
> used
> >for a master drive which is working fine.  The other is used for a
slave
> >drive, this is the drive that is giving me promblems.  I have ran all
> tests
> >on the hard drive everything comes up ok.  But when I go to to boot
up
> the
> >computer it won't let me boot up with the slave drive attached.  But
when
> I
> >disconnect the slave drive the computer starts up fine.  If anybody
could
> >help me some advice on what to do thanks Brett...

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