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i have a dell workstation and it will not recognize hard drive,i tried 3 and it did pick up 1. i want to have a backup hard drive just in case 1 crashes.i jumped them all the same way.dont know very much about computers.any help would be appreciated.thank you

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there should be a little jumper on the hard drive, make sure your spare hard drive is set to slave and the main hard drive set to Master, it should say how the jumper should be positioned on the hard drive, most hard drives are not the same jumper settings. Hope this helped!

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thank you both my hard drives work now

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