hi guys, Today, i bought a new hard drive. (Maxtor 120GB) I install it to my primary slave, so here is the configuration: Primary master: My old hard drive(Contains two partitions C: and D: which is win98SE and Win XP respectively). Primay Slave: My New hard drive Secondary master and slave: CD drive and burner The new MAXTOR hard drive has been set the jumper to "cable select". My BIOS CAN detect the new hard drive. But BOTH my winXP and Win 98 can't detect the drive at at all.(Doesn't show the new drive icon in my Computer). But in my Win XP I did saw that there is a pop-up saying that "New hardware found...MAXTOR hard drive..blablabla". But still I can't see the drive in my computer. Also if I go to "Add Hardware" in my Control panel. It DOES detect the new hard drive. and say it is working properly. Can you help me?

Does the NEW 120GB primary slave drive have a formatted partition?

If the harddrive isn't partitioned or formatted it won't show up in My Computer. I personnally don't like using cable select. I recommend master and slave settings. An advantage to this is that you can place a drive jumpered as Master on either connector on the cable. Same goes for the slave. That said, if you want both Win98 and WinXP to have access to the new drive you will need to use FAT32 for the format because Win98 can't read NTFS. WinXP can't format that drive as FAT32 because it is larger than 32GB. The best way to partition and format the drive is to use the utility from the manufacturer of the drive. Fdisk that came with Win98 will also have problems with this drive because it is larger than 64GB. There is a newer version of Fdisk available. As I said, use the disk utility. If you don't have it, download it from the drive manufacturer. If you partition this drive by creating a primary partition, you will affect the drive letter assignments in both versions of windows. If you only intend to use for programs and storage (no OS) then I recommend you partition the drive as one or more Logical drives. That way the drive letters in windows will be assigned as the next HD letter available. I hope this isn't too confusing for you. The point of the logical drives is so any programs you have installed on the D: will still work under Win98.

Do you have any USB ports? If so, you may want to consider purchasing a USB enclosure for the drive and use the 120GB as a mass storage device, once its formatted (preferrably as FAT32) so Win98 has access.

okok, it's now working. I forgot to run the CD-ROM that come with my HD. It's call "MaxBlast 3". It can help me format the drive. Thx. ;)