I helped a friend transfer his hard drives from his older computer to a newer box (faster CPU, etc). The original drive apparently died. The two drives were from a working ~166mhz computer and there were no issues. The primary drive is 3.x gig and had windows 98 loaded on it. The secondary one is a 30 gig drive. I reloaded Win98 so it would have all the new hardware loaded correctly. The trouble is that the secondary hard drive will not show up in My computer, or Windows Explorer. BIOS shows the drives. Win98's device manager shows both drives. I can use FDISK in a command prompt and see both drives (the Win98 drive is drive 0, the second is drive 1). I cannot get to the drive any other way. Remember that this drive was formatted FAT32 by Win98, and was read by the previous OS (also Win98) so there is no reason why it should not be able to read it. I'm certain I'm just overlooking something, but for the life of me, I cannot see it. Can anybody give me an idea why I cannot see this drive? I'd appreciate any help you can offer. Eric the Grey

have the master and slave pin settings be set correctly ? also try it on another IDE, I had a similar problem with a dell once and that was because you had to install the motherboard drivers so the os could "see" accross the ide channels Techy n Welsh

Try mounting the drive in windows. Using XP at the mo would have to boot to 98SE to tell you exactly. Doing it from memory. Hang on booted an old PC with 95 on it. Start,programs,accessories,system tools, Drivespace. Then if you see it in there. Click on it and go to advanced mount. Mount it. Or try drive properties then untick hide. Not saying it is compressed but might be.

The jumpers were not changed between computers, and they are still being shown by bios and fdisk correctly as drive 0 and 1. I think your statement about motherboard drivers might have some merit though. Checking, we have a PCI System Management bus device that is not functioning properly. Been trying to find the drivers for it, but without luck so far. I hadden't worried as much about that, since most everything else was working. Eric the Grey

Drivespace does not exist on this computer. I think they got rid of it in Win98. I know it existed in '98. Eric the Grey

Drivespace does exist on 98SE just cheaked my windows 98SE folder its there. Have all the windows stuff been installed Add remove programs windows setup. 95 puts it on as default. 98se may have to add later. Cant remember.

You stated "The two drives were from a working ~166mhz computer and there were no issues." If that is true then to have installed a 30GB HD you would have had to install a drive overlay program for the full capavity to be used by that old of a BIOS. and so the drive overlay program is hiding it from the new BIOS on your new computer.