I just got a new duron 1200 and set up my old hard drive which is an 8 gig, but will not auto detect it. I have checked and rechecked cables to make sure correct, also will not recognise cdrom, which is on slave. By the manuals instructions I have to connect the blue connector to the m/board, the gray one, which is second in line to the slave and the black to the hard drive which is last in line. I have done and rechecked this. Do I have to change anything in the Bios because this is an old hard drive and only 8 gig, or is it just that the newer motherboard will not accept small hard drives as masters. thanks for help. Another thing I thought of is the hard drive does have win98 fdisked with 100% dos partition with FAT 32, does that have anything to do with it. Thanks again.