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[pistatio56]

i have a 1300mhz athalon computer with 2 hard drives
a 120gb as my master, and a 40gb as my slave
i disconnected my slave to put in another,
but forgot to set the jumper in the new one to be a slave
i realized it when it didn't boot up
so i reconnected my old slave and started it up,
but i got the same error as with the new drive.
i put in the windows 98 rescue disk, started Scandisk,
and realized that the problem is that my computer doesn't see that it has any hard drives hooked up

can someone please help

thanks in advance

[Ale_lock]

take the slave out alltogether and try booting with just the master.
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Werd, & also as stupid as it sounds, the placement of the HD's on the IDE cables make a difference to some motherboards. I have a ASUS A7N8X Deluxe & its picky as hell, when I reformatted my primary 40gb cause of corruption, on my secondary IDE cable I have a CD/RW (primary)& a 120GB (secondary) & I switched the two since I thought it'd look nice to see my 3 HD's boot up along with the CD/RW at the bottom & I couldn't get passed the loading screen on XP after a fresh install but when I set the CD/RW & HD back to the switch it had no problems.

edit: since the HDs didnt show up, do this:
start with the primary HD connected, doesnt matter what connection you use (primary or secondary) just set the jumper to Single Drive, if it shows up, then move the jumper to master & see if it boots, then try to bring in another HD & let us knows how it goes.

This post has been edited by Ale_lock: Jan 4, 2005 - 7:58 PM