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you need to goto your BIOS settings at the startup. and there see for hardisk settings and set one as master and other as slave. Beware, donot try to play with these settings. try googling Bios settings information for your motherboard.<br />
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regards,<br />
aqif
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you need to goto your BIOS settings at the startup. and there see for hardisk settings and set one as master and other as slave. Beware, donot try to play with these settings. try googling Bios settings information for your motherboard.

regards,
aqif

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aqif_g and SPC_75, Thank you for your suggestions. I'll be trying them out.
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aqif_g and SPC_75, Thank you for your suggestions. I'll be trying them out.

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SPC_75, Your suggestion of placing each drive as the master of separate busses wins the day! Thank you.<br />
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aqif_g, thank you for your input.<br />
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Dennis
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SPC_75, Your suggestion of placing each drive as the master of separate busses wins the day! Thank you.

aqif_g, thank you for your input.

Dennis

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I'm trying to duplicate a laptop IDE HDD onto another laptop IDE HDD. I obtained adapters to allow me to connect the drives to a desktop IDE bus. The problem I'm having is that I don't know how to set one as the master &amp;&nbsp;the other as slave (or set both as cable-select) so that they'll both mount on a single IDE bus. <br />
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Is there any way to set one to M and the other to S?<br />
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Thanks, <br />
Dennis
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I'm trying to duplicate a laptop IDE HDD onto another laptop IDE HDD. I obtained adapters to allow me to connect the drives to a desktop IDE bus. The problem I'm having is that I don't know how to set one as the master & the other as slave (or set both as cable-select) so that they'll both mount on a single IDE bus. 

Is there any way to set one to M and the other to S?

Thanks, 
Dennis

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