I am having so much fun right now. I have added a previous master drive to a new computer and made it the salve. Now I'm the slave to it. The jumpers have been set to make it the slave and it is recognized as the slave in the BIOS. In Windows in is recognized as drive #1 - the slave (drive #0 is the Master). Computer boots up fine and things run great, but the slave drive apears to have taken the freedom train out of my system. In DOS mode I cannot find a D:/ drive. In Windows I cannot find a D:/ drive. I have my C:/ drive wherever I look, but the slave is gone. Anybody have an idea as to how I can get to see slave drive? Thanks

Which OS are you using and which OS (or probably of greater relevance, which fomat) was on the original master now the slave.

My current OS of the master drive is Windows ME and the OS on the slave drive was Windows 98.

When you boot up, does it give you choices for the 2 OS's?

The following follows from the fact that you cannot see the D in DOS but that both drives are seen in the BIOS.

We need to dig out the various bits of partition information stored in the mbr's of both hdds and in the partition boot sectors in order to get a better idea of what is going on and why the D drive has become "hidden". Utilities such as Partition Magic or Ranish Partitition Manager would be useful but perhaps the easiest/cheapest starting point is to download partin9x.zip from ftp://ftp.symantec.com/public/english_us_canada/tools/pq/utilities/ then unzip it and run the partition info tool it contains.

Click on the Save button and save the txt file to disk. Then either upload it here or copy and paste its contents.

You would only have choices at boot up if you had installed Win2K/XP after Win98/XP or had installed a drive overlay boot manager. Since these were two standalone installations on two separate HDDs introducing a multiboot scenario is probably only going to confuse the situation and is almost certainly irrelevant here.

Freedom Train?!?! Now I'm the slave to it? Do you mean that your pc is booting to the slave drive? Whichever drive 9x os'es boot to will always be labeled C:

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If both harddrives have a primary partitioon and have been set up singularly, the answer is no. Esp if there was no partition manager used at one time.

The way you would boot to one or the other is to enter BIOS and toggle between HDD-0 and HDD-1 depending on which drive or OS you want to be in.

Jay,
With 9x os'es, you should see the 2 primary partitions as C: and D: with the remaining partitions then optical drives following that, and in that order. As stated above the boot disk will always be C:

Try setting both drives to Cable Select and see how that works. Also some drives have 2 master positions one for master alone and another for master with slave. So you will need to check the manufacturer's recommendations on how they need to be set.

If your master drive is a Western Digital, it may not have a jumper on it at this time and you may need to install one.

Try setting both drives to Cable Select and see how that works.
I was about to ask if anyone here uses the cable select besides myself. :)

I prefer to use the cable select because it is a lot easier and less confusing. All my devices are set to cable select.

You'll need to use the 80-conductor IDE/ATA cable (http://www.pcguide.com/ref/hdd/if/ide/confCable80-c.html) for cable select to work I think.
Blue end to motherboard, other end is master and middle is slave.