Try doing the slave drive with the floppy. Disconnect the master drive from the data cable and unplug the power from it, change the slave to a single master or solo as shown in the manual or from the web site. Now try to format the slave drive.  You don't want to put any active partitions on it since there will be no operating system.

>Is there any reason, other than being defective, that a HD will lose it's
>partition info?
>
>I have, on the primary IDE channel,  a WD 10gig ATA-66 5400rpm jumpered as
>master, and a WD 20gig ATA-66 5400rpm jumpered as slave, and ,on the
>secondary IDE channel, a CD-ROM jumpered as master and a CR-R/CR/RW jumpered
>as slave.
>
>The first setup I booted from floppy and ran FDISK and FORMAT.  The second
>setup I booted from floppy using WD Data Lifeguard Tools to partition and
>format the slave drive.  The longest amount of time the 20gig HD keept its
>partition was a day and a half.
>
>Any advice will be appreciated.
>
>Chuck Cooley
>
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