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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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"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 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. -- Don Phillipson Carlsbad Springs (Ottawa, Canada) |
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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 = ... 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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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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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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