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148800 2003-05-31 07:48:00 Hi, I'm asking on behalf of my mate here...so i mite not be able to provide sufficient information.
I have just installed my new Maxtor 80Gb HDD as a primary slave. I'm currently using my old 15Gb hdd as a primary on my T-bird 1.2g. After formatting and running the program provided by maxtor for partitioning, I'm experincing problems booting up (Com freezes at the win 98 loading screen). I believe teh jumpers have been set correctly on the hdd's and set the maxtor as a primary slave.
I was wondering if anyone have a solution to my problem, any suggestions would be much appreciated.
thx in advance.
Sulley (2555)
148801 2003-05-31 11:33:00 Recheck the HDD connections and jumper settings

Check - or recheck - the BIOS settings

Check - or recheck - the manufacturers instructions regarding using HDDs over 32 Gb in size and Windows 98
Merlin (503)
148802 2003-05-31 13:10:00 From your wording, sounds like format, then partition. Hope it was partition first and format each partition second. Pheonix (280)
148803 2003-05-31 20:31:00 now i cant recall the exact specifics but are you sure that 1] the BIOS on the MB supports this size and 2] the os can handle it?

To be honest the max i have tried with 98 is a lot less than 80
Captive (3159)
148804 2003-05-31 23:56:00 In addition to these suggestions you may also find this site quite handy (http://fdisk.radified.com/). fragged (3862)
148805 2003-06-01 03:48:00 Check the jumpers on the master disk. It might be set for "master, no slave" Graham L (2)
148806 2003-06-01 03:52:00 Immediate addendum: I have an idea that Maxtor use CS by default, rather than master/slave selection. If you have set one drive for slave, it might confuse the logic. Anyway you'll discover this when you check the select pins on the master. :D (A CS cable often has the centre connector plugged into the MB). Graham L (2)
148807 2003-06-01 04:27:00 i dont know if u can have your boot drive on primary slave.. try it on primary master or secondary master kellanibelle (3909)
148808 2003-06-01 06:00:00 My newer box allows booting off primary slave. Perhaps though it depends what the BIOS of the MB allows. Captive (3159)
148809 2003-06-05 12:14:00 Okay, i was helping a friend out and I stumbled upon a bundle of seagate 80gb hdd warranties/manuals that QMB left in my box-of-bit I bought.
The jumper pins are like this

7 5 3 1 >>power
8 6 4 2 >>power

with the jumper over 7 and 8 it's a Master or single drive
with no jumpers drive is slave
with 5 and 6 its cable select
now heres your problem...
1 and 2 is ALTERNATE CAPACITY. LIMITS DRIVE CAPACITY TO 32Gbytes

Hope that solves your problem
hamstar (4)
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