IDE and hard drive locations

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aldar7 - Jul 18, 2011 at 10:00 AM
viqueta Posts 2 Registration date Wednesday July 6, 2011 Status Member Last seen August 15, 2011 - Jul 19, 2011 at 06:33 AM
Hello,


I am wanting to know exactly how the ide cables connect to the hard drive, cd/r,dvd/r and 3.5 floppy to the motherboard on a compaq presario 5000. my hard drive is a seagate u series 5 40gb. Also the correct memory and which is master and slave. I want to make sure i have it correct. I have had hard time with this and would appreciate your advice. Thank you sincerely aldar7
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viqueta Posts 2 Registration date Wednesday July 6, 2011 Status Member Last seen August 15, 2011
Jul 19, 2011 at 06:33 AM
well the IDE cable connector differs interms of HOLES in diff devices like ur HD has 40 holes while ur floppy uses 35 holes, so wen trying 2 connect u re sdviced 2 chk properly d back of ur devices b4 connecting inoda 2 avoid mking wrong connections
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