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  1. matmanuk

    Device Manager does not recognise master IDE Windows XP

    hey strazer-man i am a fool (and i pity the fool) i had my ide cables muddled so HDD was on secondary--managed to fix it with 2 roms on cable select with the 80 pin cable(seconary) and the master on cable select with the 40 pin(primary)--- still a bit of a strange config but I got everything...
  2. matmanuk

    Device Manager does not recognise master IDE Windows XP

    hi strazer thanx for your response my drives are set up like so: Primary: Master- HardDrive (works fine when on 80 pin cable) Slave- DVD (not recognised) Secondary: Master nothing (system won't recognise CDRW as master on this channel) Slave- CDRW (works fine 40 pin cable)...
  3. matmanuk

    Device Manager does not recognise master IDE Windows XP

    Hi strazer .... thanx for yr advice- i only have one hard drive .. do u think reinstalling XP will help? Do i need to reformat or can i just reinstall over the top? if so will i keep all my settings and programs? thanx mate for the help:)
  4. matmanuk

    Device Manager does not recognise master IDE Windows XP

    R u sitting comfortably? then i'll begin... okay i have a fujitsi (spelling?) pc with amd athlon 1000 processor dvd drive and CD RW 128meg ram... (can't remember mother board mkv... sumthing or other yada yada...) anyways i was running windows 98 happy as a sand boy but i had a cracked version...

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