Stuch Hard drive

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Well the problem is I have a hard drive (Maxtor) which when I make a
slave system does not see it. When I make it a master the best it will
do is bring up the Windows log and stay there for ever. If I wait long
enough and mash a lot of key I get three messages saying I am missing
files. But this does me no good because I cant format use FDISH. I
just cant get access to the drive. I have tried NORTON, MAXTOR drive
install, backup floppy, boot disk message I get back is wrong dos
version. I believe that one message I received from NORTON was that a
table defining characteristic of the hard drive was bad. Trying to use
FDISK /MBR but I just cant get access to the drive. Yes I have been
trying for hours and hours to fix this problem. No happy results!!.
Would it make any difference if I put the slave on the other controller
and make it a slave there,e.g., ATA controller has Master on one cable
and cd and slave drive on the other cable?. Yes I am just guessing. I
will post this on MPW setup, and AC hardware not sure about win 98
listing. I am really out of ideals.
Thanks in advance. WIN98SE.
 
L said:
Well the problem is I have a hard drive (Maxtor) which when I make a slave
system does not see it. I am really out of ideals.
Thanks in advance. WIN98SE.
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Create a 98SE floppy disk. Make sure your BIOS is set
to boot from the floppy first.
Unplug your existing Hard drive.
Plug in the Maxtor as Master.
Reboot with the floppy in the floppy drive.
Type Fdisk at the >a: prompt, and away you go.
HTH.
 
beenthere said:
Create a 98SE floppy disk. Make sure your BIOS is set
to boot from the floppy first.
Unplug your existing Hard drive.
Plug in the Maxtor as Master.
Reboot with the floppy in the floppy drive.
Type Fdisk at the >a: prompt, and away you go.
HTH.
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Well I have tried that but I get a messages that says Command.com is
missing. Still no access to the hard drive even id the bios is set to
floppy first (as Initization). I will try again but the problem is that
for whatever reason I just cant noy get access to the hard drive. But I
do get a windows logo..but that it. Well try the floppy again. Thanks
for suggestion.
 
L said:
Well I have tried that but I get a messages that says Command.com is
missing. Still no access to the hard drive even id the bios is set to
floppy first (as Initization). I will try again but the problem is that
for whatever reason I just cant noy get access to the hard drive. But I
do get a windows logo..but that it. Well try the floppy again. Thanks for
suggestion.
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Make sure command.com is on the floppy you created.
I`ve never made a repair floppy in 98SE, but I`ve done it
in most of the other OSs.
 
been said:
Make sure command.com is on the floppy you created.
I`ve never made a repair floppy in 98SE, but I`ve done it
in most of the other OSs.
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Well I did make a win start up disk. Tried it again with the same
results system will not allow me access to A: If I both without the
floppy I get Win LOGO. If I wait long enough windows logo goes away and
I get the C: prompt but no matter what I do after that I cant get access
to A: or C. for your information startup disk has many files including
Command.com. I would have pasted then her but I am not sure that helps.
 
Well I have tried that but I get a messages that says Command.com is
missing. Still no access to the hard drive even id the bios is set to
floppy first (as Initization). I will try again but the problem is that
for whatever reason I just cant noy get access to the hard drive. But I
do get a windows logo..but that it. Well try the floppy again. Thanks
for suggestion.
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That means you made your boot disk incorrectly!

Maybe you'd be better off making one from a www.bootdisk.com

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