Start over.  Remove both drives and the ribbon cable.  Make sure the jumpers on each drive are set correctly, master and slave.  If you have a Dell, you may need to use cable select.  Then make sure you connect pin 1 of the ribbon cable to pin 1 on the mobo plug. As you reinstall the drives, make sure you are putting pin 1 on the cable to pin 1 on both drives.  If it doesn't work after that, your proposed slave drive has a problem or the ribbon cable is bad where the slave plugs in.




>> 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

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