I dont see my slave drive

[mussels]

I just installed another hard drive on my computer.This hard drive was working in the other computer as a slave drive and is also installed as slave in this computer. When the computer boots up it is recognized. The BIOS has detected it also. But in "My Computer" it is not visible.I am running Windows 98SE with two hard drives and one CD ROM. The 2 HD's are on one IDE and The CDROM is on a seperate IDE. Can someone tell me what's wrong..Please and Thank you.

[Jhorner1]

What OS was the other system running. If the drive is formatted NTFS (used by NT, 2000, and XP)98se won't see it.

[Budfred]

Also, is it formatted?

Budfred

[mussels]

The other Operating system was also Win98Se. It was formatted as FAT32. This hard drive has only music on it and all I am doing is putting it into another machine.

[Budfred]

What is the original hard drive set to. If it is Master, you might want to try both on Cable Select. If it is set to something other than Master, you might want to try it on Master.

I would also check settings in Device Manager to see if it says anything about the hard drives or the IDE channel.

Budfred

[gwallen4]

It might be a jumper problem on the primary master drive. Some drives (like Western Digital) have one jumper setting for a single drive on a cable and a different setting for master with two drives on the cable.

You could also try the new drive as slave on the secondary cable.
The Cd-Rom is probably already jumpered as master but just make sure. The jumpers on Cd-roms are usually clearly marked.

[koko]

hi , on the 1st ide try cd rom as a slave,with jumper
change to slave.and on second ide,new drive,with jumper
on master.
if it dont work, rainstall OS.
;)

[no-mbr]

AHA! The slave has escaped..... Hope we can catch it before it's gets too far....!

BY all means DO NOT reinstall OS for cure. Geez....

Ever hear of FDISK? Use fdisk in windows to "see" if the drive "shows up".... you should get an extra option to select the 2nd drive...

If you can see it, then, see what "partition" info details show.

Before changing any software, put the drive back where it came from and "see" what was on it using fdisk...... some chance of a virus, some chance your BIOS use differing geometry to "detect" the drive...

Make sure the "sizes" match old to new....

[mussels]

Thanks everyone for your replies .I took all the advice and got it fixed. I put the drive as slave on the second IDE with the CDROM as master. I then had to go into the device manager and assign a drive letter for the new drive. It then detected as a removable drive. Thanks once again to everyone for your help