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Win '98 will not recognize 2nd harddrive

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by donny.wilkins

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I had 2 harddrives in my machine. The 2.1 gig was the master and the 1.6 gig was the slave. I swapped out the slave for a 10 gig. The bios recognizes it and it is even showing up in device manager. But, a drive letter was not assigned, so I can't use it. This is a used drive w/win 98 on it. What can I do to resolve the problem?

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by virgil_denny

Boot to a dos floppy, then use the command fdisk. This should ask you if you want to enable large disk support, adn you answer yes. Then go into fdisk, and check on the partition information, deleting any partition on hard drive number 2. then create a primary partition on this hard drive, and reboot. If this doesnot work for you, then I suggest trying Partition magic.

by jminshal

Use Fdisk see comment from virgil_denny@excite.com to create a primary DOS partition (maximum available) after setting active drive to #2(your new drive). Then reboot and type format d:(or whatever drive letter was assigned in fdisk step). Then remove the floppy and reboot to windows, your drive should now appear (right click my computer and select explore). Good Luck.

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by Former member

10 Gig should probably be master. Try both drives without jumpers. BIOS might autoassign. Can always set up 10 Gig as primary on the secondary controller. Slave the CD rom off of that.

by cgi¤001

Bootsequence gets into problem.
As mentionedby others: Fdisk and so on.
Basicly: two operating systems on two different drives (both independantly from each other installed, read: OS installed on Drive Y on PC "A", and OS installed on Drive Z on PC "B", and then joining drive Z on PC "A" is asking for problems...

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