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by maintenance man

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I recently FDISK and FORMATTED my C: drive which set up as primary master. I left my D: drive alone which is set up as primary slave. I wanted to save the contents of the D: drive. Now when I Windows 98 reinstalled and every thing on my C: drive is working windows will not find my D: drive. The D: drive is recognized by the CMOS and I can see it during boot up, but it will not show up when I double click the My Computer icon. Someone got some ideas.

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by thechas

When you re-installed Windows, did you install the drivers for your motherboard / chipset?

W98 needs the drivers for most MBs in order to properly deal with the hard drives and Video.

If you know who made your MB, go to their website, and download the drivers for your MB.
Or, if you can identify the MB chipset, download the reference drivers from the chipset makers site.

If you need help identifying who made your board, there are guides at www.motherboards.org
and www.wimsbios.com

by bohicam1

Just a thought..did you format your C:\ drive as fat16 while your D:\ drive is still in fat32?

Mike

by passthefaith

did youi have 98 on it the first time, if not you will have to format it also with 98 system files to be readable by win 98

by ivin

Hi,

If you have a cd-rom drive connected disconnect it and run the D drive on that cable. Because the drive are on the same cable with another drive sometimes the 2 brands of harddrive dont work together. Ive seen this alot with fujitso drives.
The D'drives partition might also be hided because running 2 active partitions can cause data corruption

by maintenance man

I went into fdisk information and found my D: drive was not partitioned. I partitioned it and then windows recognized it. I had to however format the drive and run scandisk so I lost everything anyway. Thanks for the help.

by watcherry

Did you set jumper on D: drive as a slave? And one thing, did you connect the end connector of the cable to C: drive and the middle connector to D: drive? Go & check it!

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