Harddrive jumper help.

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    Does removing the jumper off a hard drive damage anything?
     
    badrpg, Jul 4, 2007 IP
  2. MrX

    MrX Well-Known Member

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    No...removing it will set it to either master or cable select.
     
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    ichigo Well-Known Member

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    if you have set it as the master then when you reboot your computer it would look for that hd and it will not find it since you remove the jumper and you will have a disk boot error. why do you have to remove it?
     
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    The primary usage for a jumper is to assign 'master' and 'slave' when you have two drives:
    • If you have two hard drives, then you might cause real problems
    • One hard drive = I've never had trouble, but don't blame me if it gets messed up :)

    What's the issue?
    Are you having trouble booting up?
     
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  5. badrpg

    badrpg Peon

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    Right now i have 2 hds. 1 is master drive but should i remove my jumper for the slave one?
     
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    gemini181 Well-Known Member

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    Then it might want to act like the 'Master' :eek:
    What is the problem now?
     
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    Nope but watch out how you set it up when you start the PC it may not recognize the hard drive
     
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    All newer hard drives have a printed diagram showing the jumper settings. If you know the model, the info can usually be found at the web site of the maker.

    There are usually 6 pins. The options are master, slave, cable select and just parked. Just parked and no jumper are exactly the same except you store the jumper on the hard drive.


    SATA drives do not use jumpers since there is only one drive per cable.
     
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    Removal of jumper will not cause any damage to your HDs but will probably fix the problem .I have experienced it so many times.
     
    Freelance GD, Jul 4, 2007 IP