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Jumper settings are physical pins on IDE hard drives and optical drives that configure how the device operates on a parallel ATA cable. Common settings include Master, Slave, and Cable Select, which determine which drive controls the bus and how the system recognizes multiple devices on the same channel. On WindowsForum.com, users frequently discuss jumper settings when troubleshooting installation errors, boot issues, and drive detection problems with older IDE drives. Topics include setting a DVD drive to Master for Windows 7 installation, configuring a secondary IDE hard drive as Master or Slave alongside a DVD-RW, and adjusting jumpers when adding an old IDE drive to a modern SATA system. Correct jumper configuration is essential for proper communication between the motherboard and legacy storage devices.
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    Windows 7 Trouble installing a second drive, which is IDE

    I recently bought a new PC (Intel Core2 Quad, 6GB ram, Sata with 300GB HDD) and installed a new (OEM) version of Windows 7 Home Premium (64bit) Everything was running fine until I decided I'd physically add the old 'primary' drive from my old Pentium 3 as a secondary/backup. It's only 120GB so...
    • Michael Scott
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    • Forum: Windows Hardware
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    Windows 7 Installing windows7 on 2nd harddrive

    I have 2 hard drives in my computer. My C drive has xp on it. I want to do a clean install with windows 7 on the 2nd harddrive and make it my primary drive. I believe I will have to reformat the drive, it is a fat32. I want to keep xp in the machine and boot from it when I need too or be...
    • Maryocon
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    • Forum: Windows Upgrade and Installation
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    Windows 7 Troubleshooting Windows 7 Installation Errors with IDE DVD Drive and Boot Issues

    Hi There I had windows 7 when it was the beta just to see what its like. Now i have downloaded the new 64 bit version from MSDN. Upon installing i encountered several errors: First time it got almost all the way through then blue screened, then upon restart displays the message that the...
    • KaiserSozei87
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    • Forum: Windows Upgrade and Installation
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    Windows 7 secondary master IDE HDD + slave IDE DVD-RW = problem?

    Hello. I tried to configure a PC with W7 like this: c:\|d:\ SATAII HDD (two partitions) e:\ IDE HDD f:\ IDE DVD-RW I couldn't. Or could I? I did it but... albeit showing all the drives in the esplorer tree I couldn't explore the DVD I put in. But I could in the command prompt... The board...
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    • Forum: Windows Help and Support
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