Symptoms:
I had two hardrives the original had a system file error so I wanted to boot to the second drive.
Gathering Information:
I discovered on this site that the problem was most likely in either my jumper settings or the position of the drives on the cable.
Hypothesis:
H1. Change cable placement
H2. Change jumper settings
Results:
H1 was rejected. Instead of a system file error my machine didn't detect a hardrive at all.
H2 was accepted. After numerous jumper combination with no results I discovered that the jumper key on one hardrive was printed backwards. After resetting the jumpers the original hardrive was accepted as the slave and I now able to boot to my new master drive.
Reflection:
This is normally a pretty easy job to switch your master and slave drives. It is pretty safe to set your drives for cable select and use your cable to pick which drive is which. However not all drives have this option so you need to find the right settings for each drive like in my case. It also helps if the instructions printed on your drive are correct.
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