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Lincoln:<br>
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I don't think so (I'm a bit of an ignoramus when it comes to
hardware): The HD is cabled to the motherboard with its own cable, and
the CD is plugged into another slot on the motherboard. <br>
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-dave.<br>
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Lincoln Peters wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On 10/23/07, Dave Sisley <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:dsisley@sonic.net"><dsisley@sonic.net></a> wrote:
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<pre wrap="">I have a Dell Dimension 2350 that had what looked like a Hard Drive
failure. I put in a different (used) drive and installed FC4 on that.
When I try to boot, the machine acts as though there is no hard drive
installed. Poking around the bios boot options, I don't see the drive.
The drive is jumpered to be a master with slave present (CD).
What's funny is that booting from knoppix or from the FC4 install disk -
meaning booting from CD - works fine. What's more, the CD-based OS can
see the hard drive. Knoppix saw it, and FC4 obviously saw & wrote to
it. That means the disk is okay, and that there's nothing wrong with
the data cable or something...
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Are the hard drive and CD drive on the same IDE controller?
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