Your hard drive installation software should have the option to install it
to the boot drive without configuring the slave drive. This is the option
you want, as the slave drive is already configured with the special
partitioning, but the software needed to access it isn't being loaded at
boot time.

The fact that you can see the drive correctly in BIOS setup simply means
that (perhaps) the overlay configuration isn't necessary. But since you
have already configured the slave drive with that software, then Windows
will only see the partitioning (and the files) if you install the access
software to the boot drive. If your BIOS really can cope with a drive that
size then you could erase that slave drive and start over without the
overlay software, but it seems that's what you are trying to avoid.
--
Jeff Richards
MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User)
"Hua Wang" wrote in message
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Thanks for your response:

But when I start the PC and push F10 to get in the Setup, I can see this
drive defined as primary slave with correct size 40960MB. Also If I use
fdisk
under MS-DOS Promt, I can see this drive but with no letter.

This 40 GB drive worked fine in this machine before it crashed. Since I
already save a lot of files there, I hope I can save them without erase
them
with HD installation program or fdisk.

"AlmostBob" wrote:

a pc with a 10GB original drive may be old enough that the BIOS cannot
support drives larger than (something (32GB?afair?)) if that is the case
then there was a drive overlay installed on the boot drive previously
that
allowed the pc to access the 40GB, a drive larger than specified in the
bios. Goto the manufacturers web site of the 'unseen' drive and look for
drive overlays.
Maxtor produce MaxBlast,
WD produce DataLifeguard.

Read the instructions,
Read the instructions,
Read the instructions,
Ensure that this is the right solution before you do anything, check BIOS
settings drive types etc
it is possible to *expletive*deleted* the pc again if an overlay is
improperly installed.
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"Hua Wang" wrote in message
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I have a PIII Windows 98 PC with two Hard Drives - 10 GB and 40 GB. The
10
GB
one used to store the software and 40 GB one store the files like
photos
and
doc. For some reason the PC crashed and I had to reformat the 10 GB one
and
reinstalled the windows 98. However, after the installation, I can not
see
the 40 GB one in My Computer. I can see it in the setup, and I can also
find
it named as 'Generic Disk' in the 'Disk Drives' under Control
Panel\System\Device Manager. But there is no letter assigned to it. And
it
does not allow me to manually assign the letter. I have the Hard Drive
installation disk but it requires the erase of the disk. Is there any
way
that I can bring back that disk without erase the files already in
there?