hard drive problem.

[grab_grab_the_haddock]

i recenlty formatted and partitioned my C drive, it all went ok, but before i used fdisk to format i unhooked my D drive, in case -like a silly bugga - i fdisked the wrong drive. now i installed winXP on the biggest partition and win98 on a small partition.
ok so far.

now the problem is this: when i hooked what used to be my D drive back up it is no longer detected by the bios. Now i dont have a freakin clue what to do here, ive been over the users manual for the hard drive ( a maxtor) and obviously checked the connectors. apart from this i dont know what to try. any ideas? theres about 70GB of stuff on there lol.....a case of beers to the one who solves this for me.

[isus]

i dont really care about the beer... but can you hook it up as the master drive, and if you can do that, does it recognize it then? i saw a pc that wouldn't recognize the disk thru the bios, so it would say 'os not found' or whatever... i dunno tho

also, did you try some progs that look for hard drives, like partition magic, etc>

i dunno

[ihos]

Have you tried standard CMOS setup in BIOS?

[Krell]

Please check to make sure you have the Primary ( C: ) drive set to Master on the jumpers, and the SECOND drive set to Slave on the jumpers.

Check to make sure the Second drives cables are securely seated, no power cable, or if the IDE cable is not all the way in, NO go.

Secondly, check the BIOS to endure your BUS's are set to AUTO detect.

When you boot up, put your hand on the drive in question, does it vibrate, can you tell if it spins up? Go from there.

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[CCSDUDE]

I've done the same thing before....

From what I've done/worked with you're SOL cuz Windows is a POS along with DOS....

IF and when you get D: to show up....it'll just whack out the other D: that's on the first drive and give you a can't find blahblah.ocx or whatever.

If you wanna access the stuff reformat and install only one partition then burn all the content on D so you don't have to worry about losing data then install both drives boot up and format C to both partitions again with the second drive in place and set as a slave. It should mark it as another letter after that and booting should be fine.

If it's not you may be stuck with using only 1 OS till you get the chance to format the second drive along with the first....

Don't ask me why it's like that....lol I get the jist of it, but I have no clue why MS decided to be lazy fucks and not implement some sort of fix for this relatively simple yet annoying problem....drove me nuts when I wanted to snag a few files off this old 1.5 giger....

[grab_grab_the_haddock]

Originally posted by Krell
Please check to make sure you have the Primary ( C: ) drive set to Master on the jumpers, and the SECOND drive set to Slave on the jumpers.

yeah, all is good there...


Check to make sure the Second drives cables are securely seated, no power cable, or if the IDE cable is not all the way in, NO go..

yeah its all connected up just fine.



Secondly, check the BIOS to endure your BUS's are set to AUTO detect

yes they are


When you boot up, put your hand on the drive in question, does it vibrate, can you tell if it spins up? Go from there.


cant really tell, i cant feel it vibrating or spinning.

It was working fine before, with the C drive set to master and the D to slave, it was only after i fdisked, formatted and reinstalled that i couldnt see my D drive

[grab_grab_the_haddock]

Originally posted by CCSDUDE
I've done the same thing before....

From what I've done/worked with you're SOL cuz Windows is a POS along with DOS....


Don't ask me why it's like that....lol I get the jist of it, but I have no clue why MS decided to be lazy fucks and not implement some sort of fix for this relatively simple yet annoying problem....drove me nuts when I wanted to snag a few files off this old 1.5 giger....

hmm so you reckon its because ive now got two D drives? but why doesnt my slave drive show up on the screen when i boot?

formatting C again is no big deal.....i was much more worried about my music on D drive.

fuck it, im just gonna use partition magic to join both my drives together into one BIG hard drive