Win98 and Hard drive problem

[Zalen]

Win98 sees my second hard drive as a removable disk not a hard drive. It is slaved to main HD. Both are maxtors, but different models. Both are recognized by MB during bootup. Any ideas how to fix this?

 

[medic]

First try Control Panel/System/Device Manager...check the properties for the drive in question, Settings, and uncheck the box that says Removable

 

[Zalen]

That did it. Thank you very much CRV While doing this I noticed that the DMA was unchecked for primary drive. It is an ATA66 drive but the MB only supports 33. I tried to check it but on reboot the check is gone.

 

[Hyper99]

I think that your mobo doesn't support DMA

 

[Zalen]

It is a FIC-503+. It does support it. Funny thing is that the HD that windows said was removable(ATA33) had the DMA checked.

 

[ricow]

check the dma say apply then enter HD properties again if the check is gone check it again and voila it stay's there (had the same issue)