Removing an Extra Harddrive

[Eapiel]

I recently pulled an extra harddrive that was an unused slave backup out of my parent's computer for my computer.

Problem is, I apparently have to reinstall Windows 98 to get the computer to recognize the now single harddrive. The Award Bios in their Celeron/Abit combo will not recognize the single harddrive now. All I did was remove the 2nd harddrive and reset the jumper to single on the master.

What gives? I would appreciate any help here. I do not want to have to waste my folks data on their original harddrive....

 

[veryape]

Not only did you have to set the drive to master on the physical drive but you also have to switch it to master in the bios. When you boot up and see the memory count hit delete to enter your bios(may be different with your system but not likely) and the change your current drive to master in the bios,this should do the trick. Hope it works.