[arf]

Hi

I am putting together another PC with all of the old parts that I have. I have a motherboard with only one IDE slot. I have an old hard drive that uses IDE and not SATA.

I have read that you can connect both CD-rom and hard drive with one IDE (although speeds will be lowered). I need to do this because I need to install windows onto the hard drive.

Which one drive should i set as master/slave or should i both put them jumpers as CS. I set them both as master and BIOS does not recognize any IDE drives. I plan on removing the cd-rom drive after windows has been installed. thanks for ur help

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have read that you can connect both CD-rom and hard drive with one IDE (although speeds will be lowered). I need to do this because I need to install windows onto the hard drive.

Uh if the system is that old then you won't notice the speed anyway.
The HD should be set to master and be on the connection at the end of the ribbon.
The cdrom will be set as slave and be connected to the middle connection.
Make sure to set the bios boot sequence so that the cdrom is the first boot device.

[rshaffer61]

have read that you can connect both CD-rom and hard drive with one IDE (although speeds will be lowered). I need to do this because I need to install windows onto the hard drive.

Uh if the system is that old then you won't notice the speed anyway.
The HD should be set to master and be on the connection at the end of the ribbon.
The cdrom will be set as slave and be connected to the middle connection.
Make sure to set the bios boot sequence so that the cdrom is the first boot device.

[arf]

thank you

[rshaffer61]

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