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by kashmeir63

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Hi,
I have a win/98 computer. I just purchased a hard drive to hookup as a slave to my existing drive.When I boot up the bios sees the second drive but in the my computer icon it still only shows 1 drive(drive c the original). In device manager I'm unable to assign a drive letter.
Any help would be appreciated

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by timwalsh

First, make sure that the master/slave jumpers have been set properly on both your old and new drives.

Second, Windows will not recognize a drive until it has been "prepared."

To prepare a drive you must first run fdisk to create a partition (or partitions). Once this is done the drive will be visible to Windows. However, it still won't be usable until you format your partition (or partitions).

by dmiles

Does a error message come up during hardware detection?
Check the hard drive cable and make sue it is connected properly,then make sure that you have the jumper settings on the hard drive set as master and slave

Boot the computer and enter BIOS setup,in the drive configuration set to Auto,then on the right side select to Auto Detect HDD,if this proceeds to process,save and exit

Now check to see if drive shows in My Computer,if it does right-click the drive and select format from the menu

If you prefer to use more than one partition on the drive,using Fdisk see the Help Directory

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