Windows98 wont recognize 2nd harddrive; BIOS does

[sandbasser]

A friend moved his primary drive from an old computer to a new computer; it is jumpered as slave on the 1st IDE channel. The BIOS recognizes the drive but Windows doesn't see it.

Anybody know what might be going on???

I don't know the make/model of the new computer.

 

[Insomniac]

It could be a problem with the active partition. I think if both drives have an active partition, the OS will only see one. I've seen this happen once before.

I'm sure the guys here that build/fix computers all of the time can confirm or deny this.

 

[Nick Stone]

If the drive that was moved has a drive "overlay" program such as "Disk Manager" or "Easydrive" the "overlay" program may have to be removed especially if the new machine's Bios /opperating system doesn't need the "overlay" to recognize the drive.. Shouldn't harm the data.
Some machines such a older HP Vectra's must have the drive jumpered to "cable select" instead of "slave" to work.

 

[Auric]

I'm a thinkin the same as Insomniac. If that is right I think the old drive's partitions can be seen if booted to DOS. Partition Magic should fix it up. I like to configger secondary drives as extended/logical only too so their drive letters always follow all the primary ones.