HD prislave problem

[badpolarbear]

I got a used Western Digital 40 gig hard drive yesterday. I installed it made sure my master jumper was set to master, and slave was set on the WD400. When I boot up the pc Im getting an error. Prislave Drive Atapi Incompatable.Press F1 to resume..

I should mention with the IDE cable I have one end into the MoBo, the very end of the cable is conected to the master and the slave is connected to the middle connector.

HELP!

[Gecko]

Try setting them both to Cable select
or try a different ribbon cable.

[badpolarbear]

Thanks Gecko for that advice, did that before. I found the answer. Had to go into bios C-MOS settings. The slave was set to CD-ROM and master was set to USER. Changed them both to AUTO. But now I have something going on I dont like. When I boot up I have to make a choice which O/S I want to boot with. How do I make it so it auto boots to my master?

[Gecko]

[badpolarbear]

Ok Gecko, I followed the first part of the steps you said. When I looked for the default O/S there was two in the drop down box and they were both Windows XP Pro. Now when I boot there is two XP Pro lines that I have a choice of booting from and I have to down arrow to the bottom one to boot from my master. So when I went where you said , clicked on the down arrow and the box dropped down I set it to the second XP Pro. Would that be correct? Since when I boot I have to drop the line using the down arrow and then hit enter to boot to master. Is that clear enough?.

[Gecko]

There is a differance in the two, you just have to look closer it will show what
disk and partition it is on.

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional
multi(0)disk(1)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional

[badpolarbear]