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I have a seagate 40 GB hard drive as a master and a 20GB Maxtor as a slave. Both worked fine untill last week. I re-installed the OS and since then I can't get the slve to show up. It shows in the bios and it shows when the system posts. But it does not show up in my computer. Also, it show in devices manager. I've checked cables, reset the jumpers, all to no avail. Any suggestions.
Larry
Thanks for the fast reply. I can't get to the drive to fdisk it. I used a boot disk and the slave still doesn't show. It's an old drive but was woking fine untill I reinstalled wins on the master. In the morning I'm going to switch it to master, but it has no os on it but it has a sys file .
Larry
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Not sure exactly what you mean by can't get to it.
Do this and post result:
fdisk /status
[enter]
M2Mechanix2@Golden-Triangle.com
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It shows in POST but not in fdisk? Huh, i'm afraid I'm not that experienced. Hopefully someone else will post soon. :)
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Sounds like your older Slave died. They can do that suddenly, the fact that it did it just when you reinstalled the OS was indidental.
Way to check for sure, pull your slave out and plug it in to a friend's computer; if his box doesn't see it either, its dead.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day;
Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime;
Then industry pollutes the water and kills all the fish.
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Thanks for all the suggestions. I fdisk/status and it show drive 1 and drive 2. 1 being th master, shows drive letter and usage.2 shows the size but no drive letter. I believe the drive died. Unless someone has and further suggestions, it's gone. Thanks again.
Larry
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I doubt that drive is physically dead, reasons:
0. It shows in the bios and when system posts.
1. Also, it shows in devices manager.If you had XP, I'd advise you go into disk management to check the status of the drive, but with '98SE that's not applicable. My suggestion therefore is to attach only the drive as master and see if you can access the drive from DOS mode. If you can, then the drive is not defective and what you simply do is hook it back up as slave and run '98 setup again.
-- Always do what you are afraid to do --
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When I tried fdisk it showed the c drive and size. it showed a second drive with size but no letter designation (D). I'm going to try it as the master and if it does come up, re format and fdisk it. Have a few programs on it I hate losing but nothing real important.
Larry
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Want to thank everyone for there help. I finally figured out what happen. When I reformated and fdisked my c drive, somehow my d (slave) also got formated but not partioned....so it didn't show up on the desk top. After I fdisked it, put it back to slave and booted it showed up. Last some data but nothing real bad. Thanks again.
Larry
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Well, almost.
First the drive must be recognized by the BIOS.
Then it must have at least one partition.
THEN it can be formatted.
M2
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