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Windows 98 not recognizing 2nd hard drive

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Medellon

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I recently put together a system using an ASUS A7V-133 motherboard with an Athlon 1.33 CPU. I installed Windows 98 on a new Western Digital 7200 RPM 40 GB drive. I have this drive set as the master and a WD Expert 18GB drive as the slave on the same Primary IDE channel, my jumper settings are correct and all cables are inserted properly. When I load into Windows 98, it only recognizes my 40 GB drive and it does not recognize my 18 GB drive. My bios autodetects both drives correctly so I'm not sure where the problem is, any help would be appreciated, thanks.

James
 
Has the 18GB drive been Fdisked? If not, you'll defiantly need to do that first.

If it's out of a working computer, it may be formatted with NTFS, in which case you'll need to get it back to a FAT32 drive (and which will kill everything on the drive).
 
My 18 GB drive was working fine before I bought the 40 GB drive. I needed more space so I bought the 40 GB drive and since it is faster, I want the 40 GB as the master. The funny thing is, I can boot up with the 18 GB drive and it works fine except that Windows 98 will not detect the other drive depending on which one I booted up from.
 
i had this problem six months ago with a friends computer. the settings in his bios were wrong, he had the the slave drive turned off. check in your BIOS too see if your computer even sees the drive
 
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