My Mother In Law has 2 drives on her Dell D 2400, a cd/dvd rom(1st slave) and a cd/dvd rw(2nd slave). The 1st drive (cd/rom, primary slave) is not working. Can I just take away the IDE cable from both drives and then set the last part of the cable on the 2ndary slave (cd/rw) drive, building it the new 1st slave drive? That would depart the middle link of the IDE cable blank. The manual doesn't provide very excellent instruction and I'm a guy which is use the laptop. I have turned the faulty cd/rom drive "off" in BIOS system, though it will not re-boot cleanly. You have to inform the system to carry on with the boot up due to it not being clever to discover the primary master drive. I thinking to just create the 2nd cd/rw drive the 1st drive and then possibly the pc can reboot as usual. It's no big problem only my Mother In Law will be puzzled if she ever has to reboot.
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