This question was sent to Maxtor, the mfgr. of my HDD.
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I recently purchased a 120GB HDD from Newegg.
I’m currently running 98SE on an old temporary 4GB HDD as my Primary Master. The BIOS detects the 120GB HDD as a Primary Slave (as I want to be – for now). However my OS doesn’t see it. I run System Information, Norton System Works is installed, and it shows, but it is listed as 114.50GB?
Before long (ASAP) I’m going to Clean install XP on the 120GB HDD, with XP and dual boot to 98SE; both being on separate partitions.
However, I first have to get 98SE to recognize the 120GB HDD. I have dowloaded Maxblast III to my desktop. My floppy drive is toast and I wish to copy the Maxblast software to a bootable CDR. Is this possible?
I am going to make the 120GB as my Primary Master and save the 4GB for emergencies.
This my be too much info. As it stands, I put my CD-ROM as the first boot item and the 120GB as the second. Then I made the CD-ROM the Primary Master and the Secondary Master as the 120GB. I then put the XP disk in the CD-ROM, shut down and rebooted. It didn’t do anything.
If you have any answers to my dilema, please inform me. Thank you.
Colin P. King
colin154@strato.net
