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Old March 7th 05, 09:44 AM
chiropter
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Default Slave drive is not recognized by Windows Explorer?

My platform is Win 98. Until recently I had no problem to see the
content of the secondary HDD (slave, Maxtor) connected to the same
ribbon cable as the primary HDD(also Maxtor). Now Windows Explorer does
not show the second HDD. I checked Bios which is set to autodetect the
secondary (slave) as well as the primary (master). Device Manager lists
the secondary drive with "working properly" message. In fact, at the
booting I can see the second HDD as the first HDD in the flowing Bios
screen with correct identification. I even once removed the second HDD
in the device manager before rebooting, but it did not solve the problem.
(To be sure, I have checked the integrity of both drives and correct
jumpers setting .)
Can anybody tell whether this is a motherboard problem or whether
something happened to the Win 98 system
files? What might be the way to solve this problem?
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Old March 7th 05, 03:21 PM
Don Phillipson
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"chiropter" wrote in message
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My platform is Win 98. Until recently I had no problem to see the
content of the secondary HDD (slave, Maxtor) connected to the same
ribbon cable as the primary HDD(also Maxtor). Now Windows Explorer does
not show the second HDD. I checked Bios which is set to autodetect the
secondary (slave) as well as the primary (master). Device Manager lists
the secondary drive with "working properly" message. In fact, at the
booting I can see the second HDD as the first HDD in the flowing Bios
screen with correct identification. I even once removed the second HDD
in the device manager before rebooting, but it did not solve the problem.
(To be sure, I have checked the integrity of both drives and correct
jumpers setting .)
Can anybody tell whether this is a motherboard problem or whether
something happened to the Win 98 system


These are two candidate diagnoses.
A third is that the missing HDD is now damaged.
You can check this by swapping the first and
second drives (correctly jumpered) and investigating
whether (a) BIOS, (b) Win98 sees either or both
correctly.

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Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs
(Ottawa, Canada)


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Old March 7th 05, 04:05 PM
Ben Myers
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Maxtor has diagnostic software that can help with this.

http://www.maxtor.com

MaxBlast3 for Windows
http://downloads.maxtor.com/_files/m...xblast3win.ex=
e

Ben

"chiropter" wrote in message =
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My platform is Win 98. Until recently I had no problem to see the=20
content of the secondary HDD (slave, Maxtor) connected to the same=20
ribbon cable as the primary HDD(also Maxtor). Now Windows Explorer =

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not show the second HDD. I checked Bios which is set to autodetect the =


secondary (slave) as well as the primary (master). Device Manager =

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the secondary drive with "working properly" message. In fact, at the=20
booting I can see the second HDD as the first HDD in the flowing Bios=20
screen with correct identification. I even once removed the second HDD =


in the device manager before rebooting, but it did not solve the =

problem.
(To be sure, I have checked the integrity of both drives and correct=20
jumpers setting .)
Can anybody tell whether this is a motherboard problem or whether=20
something happened to the Win 98 system=20
files? What might be the way to solve this problem?

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Old March 7th 05, 04:15 PM
Ben Myers
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Correction. PowerMax is more appropriate.

http://downloads.maxtor.com/_files/m...s/powermax.exe

Ben

"Ben Myers" wrote in message =
...
Maxtor has diagnostic software that can help with this.

http://www.maxtor.com

MaxBlast3 for Windows
http://downloads.maxtor.com/_files/m...xblast3win.ex=
e

Ben

"chiropter" wrote in message =
...
My platform is Win 98. Until recently I had no problem to see the=20
content of the secondary HDD (slave, Maxtor) connected to the same=20
ribbon cable as the primary HDD(also Maxtor). Now Windows Explorer =

does=20
not show the second HDD. I checked Bios which is set to autodetect the =


secondary (slave) as well as the primary (master). Device Manager =

lists=20
the secondary drive with "working properly" message. In fact, at the=20
booting I can see the second HDD as the first HDD in the flowing Bios=20
screen with correct identification. I even once removed the second HDD =


in the device manager before rebooting, but it did not solve the =

problem.
(To be sure, I have checked the integrity of both drives and correct=20
jumpers setting .)
Can anybody tell whether this is a motherboard problem or whether=20
something happened to the Win 98 system=20
files? What might be the way to solve this problem?

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Old March 8th 05, 10:42 PM
Jeff Richards
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If Device Manager sees the drive but Windows does not assign a drive letter
that indicates the drive is working but the partitioning is not seen as a
valid Windows 9x partition. This usually indicates some damage to the
partition table. Use FDISK to discover what Windows sees about the
partitioning of the drive. Use PartInfo to detect if the drive is actually
accessible, and exactly what the partition table indicates.
http://www.diydatarecovery.nl/ForumEntrance.htm
http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/utilities.html
--
Jeff Richards
MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User)
"chiropter" wrote in message
...
My platform is Win 98. Until recently I had no problem to see the content
of the secondary HDD (slave, Maxtor) connected to the same ribbon cable as
the primary HDD(also Maxtor). Now Windows Explorer does not show the
second HDD. I checked Bios which is set to autodetect the secondary
(slave) as well as the primary (master). Device Manager lists the
secondary drive with "working properly" message. In fact, at the booting I
can see the second HDD as the first HDD in the flowing Bios screen with
correct identification. I even once removed the second HDD in the device
manager before rebooting, but it did not solve the problem.
(To be sure, I have checked the integrity of both drives and correct
jumpers setting .)
Can anybody tell whether this is a motherboard problem or whether
something happened to the Win 98 system files? What might be the way to
solve this problem?



 




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