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From: W.R.(Bill) Boulton <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: [PCBUILD] New Hard Drive setup probs



>         I just bought a 6.4 Fujitsu HDD. Bios auto detects it no prob
>jumpered as master or slave, but then the system doesn't "see" it anymore !


I recently had a similar problem.  I was building an essentially new pc, and
I was using a dos 7 boot floppy trying to fdisk the new 6.4 WD drive.  Fdisk
would seem to run ok, but when I re-started my computer, the os would not
see the drive for formatting purposes, but it would see it to run fdisk!  I
do
not know what was wrong - perhaps a defective boot disk.  I finally ran
fdisk from a hard drive with W95 on it (temporarily installed) and then
it was ok.

I also noticed that my system had trouble recognizing the drive when it
was set as a slave to the cd, but was fine if it was the master.

None of this may be relevant to your exact situation, but I was convinced
that the new drive was defective and about ready to return it, when
I finally got it to work.  Someone else may have an explanation for all
this.

Dean


Dean Kukral
Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics
Wichita State University
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