installing a second drive

[francois]

I have a Seagate Barracuda 20 gig primary drive, I have installed a second as the primary slave (Western digital Caviar 20gig)the jumpers are set as per manufacturers instructions. The Bios (motherboard M6VBE with Biostar Bios VBE 0706A) recognises both drives correctly but takes for ever for Windows 98 to boot up (I am talking 10 minutes!). If I disconnect the slave it takes seconds any ideas?

[mjc]

There is the possibility that you are using compatability mode for the drives...also there may be a conflict, boot into safe mode, go to device manager and see if there are any duplicate devices, especially drives or IDE controllers....

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[francois]

Originally posted by mjc:
There is the possibility that you are using compatability mode for the drives...also there may be a conflict, boot into safe mode, go to device manager and see if there are any duplicate devices, especially drives or IDE controllers....


Thanks i tried your suggestions, compatability mode is not selected and in safe mode I only have one type 46 drive listed. When Windows eventually boots up I note that the second drive does not appear to be there but was recognised by the bios. I tried the Western digital utility which found both drives (in Dos mode)they are both set to ATA 33 which corresponds to my motherboard. any other ideas?

[diurnal]

How bout the slave how does that boot up. Try the western digital on the master primary, and tell us how that boots up? You might have something not partition or formatting right. What os do you have on the western dig. , how do you have that set up?

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