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Problem with Dell Optiplex GX280?
I have a Dell Optiplex GX280. I put the hard drive from another computer into this one. Although I need to repair Windows to get it to work with this computer. The hard drive is PATA and so is the disc drive. When I connect both it recognizes the hard drive but not the disc drive. Only when you connect the disc drive separately, does the computer recognize the disc drive. I have checked the jumpers and they are on cable select. I have even tried specifically setting the hard drive as master and the disk drive as slave. That still didn't work. It did, however work when I set the hard drive as slave and the disk drive as master. It recognized both but the Windows CD will boot, but freeze up when I try to start the repair.
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- PersonLv 71 decade agoFavorite Answer
Monkey in the BIOS. I believe that the GX280 (and a lot of other Dells of that era) required to you specify if you had a master and/or slave on the IDE bus and then specify what type of drive it is. Pain in the butt, but it might be the root of your problem.
- JimLv 71 decade ago
What kind of disk is the OTHER drive? You say one is a hard disk and the other is a "DISK DRIVE." What is the other drive type specifically, a floppy drive or ROM drive?
Don't use cable select. That is only for if you want to gang a bunch of hard drives together from different computers.
You CANNOT just swap out a hard drive from one computer and put it in another one and make it work. Windows is tied to the specific hardware from which it was installed. You cannot just REPAIR it and make it work. You have to install a new copy of Windows.
