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4901 2000-05-30 08:20:00 Hi - hope someone can assist...
I've added a second hard drive and am experiencing some odd symptoms.

Running w98 + 1st patch, and have a P2 350 (intel) with a seagate 4g drive and Asus cd, and new drive is also Seagate 4.3g.

Previous setup was C primary master and D (CD) primary slave, both running off 1st IDE slot, with cable connected to D then C.

I added the new drive, and changed cabling. Old drive is still C (primary master) and new drive (now D) primary slave - these run off 1st IDE, and have the connector first attached to slave (D) and then C.

New cabling I inserted to 2nd IDE and connected to cd drive, which is now Secondary Master. (now E)

Jumper settings I set appropriately.
I have an Award bios, set to auto for all drives.

Symptoms are... every time I run Windows Explorer it activates Auto Run from my cd - so whatever cd I have in the drive now auto exec's every time I do an explorer op, or even when I do any app that has an Explorer type function.

Also - tried 3 times to scan disc the new drive, and it stalls about a 1/4 way thru, and after 3 hours still won't progress.

Also experiencing probs with Netscape now which may or may not be related.

The new drive was perfect before installation, and was pre-formatted etc. I can happily copy and save and execute files to and from the new drive.

Any tips or checks would be much appreciated, ta.
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