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Windows will not recognize 2nd Hard Drive

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fragged

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Usine windows 98 with a system. I put a 2nd Hard drive in and set it up as a slave with jumpers. I made sure the other drive was set as master, not 'single'.

I auto-detect in CMOS and it detects the 2nd drive with no problem, but when I boot up either with a floppy, or just F8 and boot to a DOS prompt, or go into the Win98 GUI, it's like the HD is non-existent. Any ideas?


The hard drive works fine as a master by the way. I partitioned, formatted, and installed Windows 98 on it and did a scandisk, no errors. It boots fine.




 
boot with start up disk, run fdisk, partition and format. it should see it fine then. unless you ahve special programing, you can not have the operating system on the master and the slave unit.
 

>>> unless you ahve special programing, you can not have the operating
>>> system on the master and the slave unit.

I don't know if this is necessarily true. Whenever I clone a HD with Norton Ghost, I always reboot to check that all the files are there on both HDs. I never have a problem with Windows loading even though there's another copy on the slave unit.

As for the HD not appearing, my guess would be the power supply. I've had a few instances where I'd lose a SCSI drive sometimes. The power supply just didn't have enough juice to power the drive adequately. Do both drives work if you have just one HD in at the same time? Does it work if you use the 2nd HD as the master with the original one as the slave?
 
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