I have seen a lot of posts/replies reguarding adding a second hard drive on a Win95 machine. However, none of them seem to answer the specific trouble I am having. After the second drive was added, (a 2.1gb slave to a 1.7gb master), the PC won't recognize it. I used the setup utility provided with the drive and had it formatted, but I still can't make the PC see it. When I enter the CMOS settings to try to set the slave drive info up, it says the secondary drive settings are disabled and I can't make any changes at all. According to the docs that came with the drive, the jumpers on both drives are set right... Any ideas??

Get down to the basics. If you take out your master drive and set the new drive (the one that the PC can not see) for master and then see if the PC can see it, then you know it is not the drive. Also our these the same "brand" drives. The reason I ask is that some drives wil not work with other drives. Also are both drives on the the same channel or our they on separate channels. If they are on separate and you have the new set to salve then the CMOS will not see it. Hope this helps.

The drives are both on the pirmary ide controller, the new one is to be the slave. The BIOS shows that the slave on the primary IDE controller is "disabled" and I don't know how to enable it. I will try to bring it up by itself if all else fails, though. Thanks for the advice. And they are both the same brand, Seagate.

Howdy, First use the stupid little utility that came with the new drive and uninstall it, if the CMOS can see a 1.7gig it should be able to see the newer 2.1gig drive without a problem, once you have the stupid seagate utility removed from the hard drive go back into the CMOS and see if it can auto detect it, if it does then use FDISK to make the partition on the second hard drive and use the Format command to format it. Laters, Kevin The Tech Dude. P.S Yes I hate those stupid hard drive utilities that come with hard drives these days.