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Slave HD recognizes in Bios, not in win

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by zekeallmon 1 view

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I have a Quantum Fireball Master HD, and a WD 400BB Slave HD. I am master/slaving because i need to backup the data on the WD drive. So, I quadruple check that i have jumpered the drives right, and boot into windows 98. During Post, i can see that the PC recognizes the WD as a slave, but when it gets into windows, no dice. Nothing. I have had this same thing happen before, and just attributed it to dumb luck... (no jokes there!) Anywho. I am confused. I entered bios setup, and double checked the settings, and it all looks fine, but i just cant figure out for the life of me why i cant see the WD HD in windows... thanks for the help.

Other machine specs:

Dell V350
64 MB RAM ( yeah i know, i know)
blah blah blah.. if you have any questions to my post, email me at zekeallmon@yahoo.com

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by d_v ant

You will need to create a partition on the new drive using fdisk before Windows will see it.

by pesk, mbcs, mcse, mcitp, sts

Not to berate D V Ant, this is only true for new unformatted HDD's. If the HDD is formatted and partitioned, this could be due to cabling. Use the primary (IDE0) cable for the master and use the secondary, normally CD-ROM (IDE1) cable for slave.

by donmars

Are you sure slave drive is not formated NTFS? 98 will not see NTFS drives, that means it was running under versions of NT and not formated as fat or fat32 but NTFS.

by thechas

Another 'real' possibility, is that the WD drive was setup with Western Digitals Data Lifeguard Tools.

If so, it may have a bios / drive overlay program installed.

If it does, it needs to be the boot drive in order to have any access to the drive.

You can try booting from a Data Lifeguard disk, and see if you can un-install the drive overlay software.

Fdisk /mbr will usually remove the drive overlay software, but you may loose access to the data.

You may want to try a partition manager such as Partition Magic to query and access the drive.

If the drive is a NTSF volume, you can download a utility from www.systeminternals.com that will allow W98 to read from a NTSF drive.

Chas

by colin_mendonca

Are you sure that the jumper settings on your drive are proper.I mean (master/slave)according to your cabling.
Is the drive partitioned as NTFS?

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