Jumpers and IDE DVD-RW and HDD question

[Messerschmitt]

Hello.

I was working on my old computer and one of the HDD's give me a problem.

Now I was wondering. Is it possible to have your DVD-RW as master or slave and a HDD as slave or master?

I wanted to use all my 3 HDD's and the 1 DVD-RW. Also are the CD-ROM's/DVD-RW/CD-RW's jumpers usable for HDD? I think I lost a jumper for one of my HDD and I want to use from one of my CD/DVD RW/ROMS (I have 3 of them lol)

Also, when you do a chkdsk and it reports it has 1 or more errors, what is the next step? I checked my HDD and I received that but then I have no clue what I can do to try to fix those errors or what not.

[Ponch]

There are two sizes of jumpers, the "big" ones are only used on 3'5 HDDs and optical drives. Smaller ones are used for portable's HDDs (or rather not used as almost all portables have only one HDD) and sometimes on 3'5ers as well. You'll see directly if it fits.

All your devices can be set as master or slave, I don't really see your problem here.

Next step to checkdisk is repair or "keep corrupt" which is not really an option. If I get it right, the message simply says that errors have been detected AND repaired.

[Messerschmitt]

I remember when I did chkdsk it just said 1 or more errors has been detected. I don't remember anything else saying the errors has or has not been dealt with.

It's just the summary and no options. This is with chkdsk /p.

Also, i tried the jumpers and they do fit, I was just wondering if there can be a compability issue.

About the CDROM and HDD I'm asking because I have 2 HDD on 1 IDE cable, and then this DVD-RW and HDD on other IDE, and this HDD was not recognized.

[puntoMX]

You could try to set everything on Cable Select (CS) and let the BIOS do the work.

A jumper is just made out of a metal conductor and a plastic housing, nothing special .