Drive reognition

A number of options are available.
Check that the drive(s) are being recognised during the boot process.
Check that the BIOS is set to autodetect the drives and that the UDMA etc is set to auto.

Check the jumpers. Remember that on 40 way cable the drives should be set via jumper as either master or slave. If employing a 80 way cable, the drives should be jumpered as cable select.
Once the drives have been set as master, slave or cable select, double check the partitioning.
Boot from a clean system disk and run the fdisk utility. It may be worth deleting any partitions and logical drives, rebooting and re-creating these partitions and logical drives.

It may be worth starting Windows in safe mode (f5 during boot) and checking out the device manager for error codes.

Best of luck.
If non of the above work the onboard EIDE controller may be damaged.

You need the IDE buss driver for your motherboard.

Windows 98 has very poor native IDE device support.

If this is a 'name-brand' system, check the mfgs web site.

Otherwise, check with the mother board mfg.
For help identifying your motherboard, check out the ID tools at either www.motherboards.org
or www.wimsbios.com

Chas

Thank you guys, my problem was loading a driver just like you said.
Pattwice