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10530	2001-03-27 10:39:00	I've just installed a new Western Digital 2Gig HD as slave to a 4G Master. i set the jumpers accordingly, on startup i kicked into BIOS setup and autodetected the new drive. Restart & the drive is not seen by Windows (98)! In device manager under drives I have a type 46 & type47 which indicates the drive is there. What have I missed? Do I need to Fdisk the new drive first? Thanks	Guest (0)
10531	2001-03-27 12:16:00	The only time I have struck this was when two harddrives of the same brand but different sizes were on the same IDE cable. By putting the slave drive on the second IDE chanel and setting the jumpers to master on that drive it solved the problem. Hope this helps.	Guest (0)
10532	2001-03-27 21:02:00	Yes, you need to create a partition (fdisk) and format the drive (either windows or dos).	Guest (0)
10533	2001-03-28 10:54:00	Thanks for the comments guys, I have tried this drive as Master and Slave on the Prim.IDE and as Master on Sec. IDE . BIOS sees it ok but still not seen in windows/ My Computer. I cant Fdisk it as it doesnt have a drive letter! Only the Master (4Gig) shows up in Fdisk as C: Are brand new drives pre formatted/bootable? Where do I check to make sure lastdrive =z and not d .On the label of the drive it says 'AT compatible' Shouldnt it be ATA for a new computer? (15 months old) Any more ideas? Thanks	Guest (0)
10534	2001-03-28 20:34:00	Phil, I would like to take this oppertunity to thank Brent, for seeing the problemsmore clearly than I did, and to Alan for giving you a simpler soltution, Thanks guys Cheers, Tim	Guest (0)
10535	2001-03-28 20:35:00	Phil, I would like to take this oppertunity to thank Brent, for seeing the problemsmore clearly than I did, and to Alan for giving you a simpler solution. Thanks guys. Cheers, Tim	Guest (0)
10536	2001-04-02 10:11:00	Thanks for the help .I downloaded a program from Western Digital called Data Lifeguard Tools which I used to partition/format the new drive. It sounds like this should have came with the Drive,on floppy.	Guest (0)
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