"Jeff Richards" wrote:
If you were using some disk management software for the Quantum drive when
it was a slave in the old machine, then that software is not running now and
the partitioning will not be recognised by Windows. That would produce the
symptoms you are seeing - the drive is recognised in BIOS and some
information can be accessed but it is inconsistent and not sufficient to
allow Windows (or DOS) to recognise it as properly partitioned or formatted.
This would be the case if the old BIOS was not capable of recognising the
full capacity of that drive and you had to use management software to make
it compatible, or if you originally configured the drive using the drive
manufacturer's configuration utility (whether it was really needed or not).

You can get a similar result if the logical block mapping is different
between the two BIOSes. Sometimes, manually configuring the BIOS settings
for the new machine can get you back to a compatible setting.

It's also possible that when the motherboard died it took the drive with it.
Run the manufacturer's diagnostics to confirm that the drive really is
working OK.

Jeff Richards
MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User)
"MEB" meb@not wrote in message
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Hey jeff
thanks for answering my post
i don't know everything about computers..
but i may know a little bit more then some people...
please keep this in mind..

you wrote:
*If you were using some disk management software*

i wasent using any disk management software..
i dont think that is it...

you wrote:
*or if you originally configured the drive using the drive
manufacturer's configuration utility (whether it was really needed or not).*

this might be it Jeff..
not 100% really sure..
heres where things get a lil foggy..
(Due to building my old system about 5-6 years ago..)
i have never had to reinstall the operating system ever (98SE)..
it worked great from day 1 of me building it..
no problems ever..
can you believe that...
never having to re-install Windows

Anyways...
when i first built it ..
heres what i think i did when i went to install my second hard drive

*FIRST* i Low level formated the Hard drive with the Quantium tool (MAXTOR)
I KNOW FOR SURE I DID THAT...
then..
heres where the foggy part is, that im not really sure about..
i SWEAR this is what happened...
BUT NOT! 100% sure though..
(like i said this was 6 years ago...)

THEN i put in Fdisk and
partition the Hard Drive and formated it ..I KNOW I DID THIS

BUT!! then..i think..not 100% sure
then when i went to reboot my computer..
Windows didnt see the D: drive..
i was like what the hecks going on here!!...
so i put back in the Quantum tool..
and as soon as i did...it may have done something
and said something like..
not compatable with your current system you need to *SOMETHING*
i forget..
i think i just clicked OK..
and it did something..
then i rebooted..
and there was my D: drive..
all i remember was being happy..
because it was BIGGEST Hard Drive i EVER had and it was working..lol...
(ha ha 20 Gigs BIG!!... 6 years look how far we've come..anyways)
yeah in not really sure...
but im kinda thinking maybe thats what happened..

and now im worring that your going to say..
im going to loose all that data..
just because i may have
originally configured the drive using the drive manufacturer's configuration
utility

how can i check and see if i did do that???...can i?

then you wrote..
*You can get a similar result if the logical block mapping is different
between the two BIOSes. Sometimes, manually configuring the BIOS settings
for the new machine can get you back to a compatible setting.

im lost here..
i do know
that my bios in my Abit KT7 had WAY MORE options..
like i could set the paramaters manualy for the Hard drives..
cylinders..blocks...and stuff like that

and the new Compaq motherboard dosen't have nothing much in it..
only stuff like Enable Dissable UMDA...a few other things..
it doesen't even show much about the hard drives info..
just the name and size of the Hard drives that about it..
yeah the Compaq Bios is nothing compared to the Abits Bios..
the Compaq Bios is for pre-schoolers..
so i think that might not be a option to change much there..

so Jeff buddy what do you think?
what if i did do the configuration thing with the Quantum tool..
any thing?..
i still have the Quantum tool..
and there is some options in it..
but im not sure of what some of Options even do...
i dont want to do anything to loose this data..
like pick a option in the tool and have it make things worse then they are..
any more ideas or thoughts?
if not thanks so much for the information you gave me so far..
and if not..
yeah thanks so much for trying to help me..
yeah Jeff..thanks so much for your time buddy..
yeah thanks alout buddy
yeah your wicked cool for trying to even help..
thanks alot!!