Comments on: Install IDE drive as slave on a Vista Dual Core Processor w/SATA primary drive

By: brenger

brenger — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 22:58:02 +0000

I finally installed it. Piece of cake. I did set the IDE jumper to slave and have no problems. Used a ribbon cable. When I booted after install, a window popped up just like I connected a USB drive….pretty cool. I do intend to tell the people at Best Buy about their error. Thanks for everyone’s input.

By: pcman43

pcman43 — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 17:03:20 +0000

The only problem that I have seen with this combo in the past is, you need to make sure that the IDE drive you are installing has not been installed as a master boot drive before with the op system still on it. If this is done the computer will try to boot off the IDE drive even if it is set as a slave on the primary IDE channel. As long as the secondary drive is blank or not an active partition it will work fine.

By: vatchy

vatchy — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 15:36:01 +0000

Another option is to set the jumper on the HD and CD/DVD to CS which means Cable Select. Since you’re not booting from them it doesn’t matter which one is master or slave and you can set them both the same.