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Fat 16, fat32
Name: Langener Date: May 8, 2004 at 13:19:02 Pacific OS: 98 SE CPU/Ram: 586
Comment:
The HDD on my 586 has '98 on it with FAT 16. It is getting full, and I tried to put a 6 Gig in also with '98 but FAT 32. BIOS dedects the HDD, but the Computer will not boot into Windows. Could the two different FATs be the Problem?
Nope - more likely the drives are not jumpered correctly. Your main drive (C:) is the primary master. Adding a 2nd drive on the same cable, you'd need to set the jumpers for that one as 'slave' - or run it on the other controller as secondary master or slave, and jumpered as such.
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