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Hard Drive in Windows 98

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Name: aaron
Date: November 20, 2002 at 03:08:49 Pacific
OS: Windows 98
CPU/Ram: Pentium II / 448mb
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HELP!!

I have installed Windows 98 on my primary hard drive and and have been using it for a while now, and i was cleaning out a cupboard and i found a hard drive in there. I nstalled it on the secondary slave controler and the bios reconises it but when i go into windows 98 it doesent reconise it. If any one has a suggestion please email me

thank you



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Name: Sci-Guy
Date: November 20, 2002 at 03:32:40 Pacific
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Before Windows will recognise the drive, you'll need to partition and format it. You can use fdisk to create the partition/s then format.

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