Bill,

I think you are saying that the new drive, when jumpered as a slave on the
primary IDE channel, is not recognized by DOS or Win(3.1x? 95a? 95b?).  As
long as the BIOS will auto-detect it, do the following to prepare the drive
for usage (I'm assuming you have Win95a and you what to make the new drive
your C: drive):
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Here's what you need to do for a successful transfer of ALL files to your
new drive:

This is tricky. Follow the instructions carefully!

Prerequisites: A Windows95 startup disk

1) Install your new, blank hard drive as a slave to drive C:.
2) Boot with the startup disk
3) Run FDISK and setup the max primary partition for FAT16 - approx.. 2.1G?
FDISK will
    show the max size allowed (if you have Win95b and want FAT32 enabled you
can
    set it up with only one 6.4G partition).
3a)Setup a 2nd and 3rd extended partition. This will use the whole drive and
will
     result in Drive letters D; E; and F for the new drive.  Exit FDISK.
2) Format the new hard drive using FORMAT on ALL three partitions.
3) Reboot into Windows95
4) The following will copy the contents of your old drive to the new drive:
From a DOS WINDOW INSIDE WINDOWS95 (THIS IS IMPORTANT!), type the
following command:

        XCOPY C:\*.* D:\*.* /s/c/h/e/r/k

Notes: If you get a "switch not recognized" error, you're doing it wrong. To
find out what these switches do, type xcopy /? from a DOS WINDOW INSIDE
WINDOWS95. This command assumes that your new hard drive was assigned the
letter D:\. Choose "yes" if asked to overwrite any files.

5) When copying is finished, turn off the computer, open it up, and
reconfigure so that the new hard drive is the Primary Master drive and the
old drive as slave.

6) Boot to the Win95 startup disk. Using FDISK set the Primary Partition on
the new C: drive as Active.

7) Eject the Startup disk and reboot. If Windows95 does not boot from the
hard drive, put the startup disk back in and boot to it. At the A:\ prompt,
type:

SYS C:

This will recopy the system files to the new hard drive.

8) Reboot to the hard drive. It should boot to Windows95.
    Within Explorer you will now have your new 6.4G drive as C: E: F: while
the old drive
    is now the D: drive.

There are lots of reasons why the above procedure might not work on a
particular system. You'll be doing a lot of plugging and unplugging of IDE
and power cables, moving jumpers around, so it's easy to get one of these
things wrong, ie, incorrectly jumpered drives, cables that aren't correctly
seated on the pins, incorrect HD parameters in CMOS, etc.
Also, the instructions above are a bit tricky to follow, and unless you are
very careful, you will do something wrong the first time you try it.

Hope this helps!

Tim Klymkow

-----Original Message-----
From: W.R.(Bill) Boulton <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thursday, February 26, 1998 10:05 PM
Subject: [PCBUILD] New Hard Drive setup probs


>Hello Fellow Techies,
>         System info : Cyrix P200L, TX mobo,64mb,OSR2,2 hdd's(primary)-
>LS120,12X cd(secondary)
>         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 tried entering info manually, running stand alone(in case it was
>to fast
>for my old HDD),even running on secondary channel(had to disconnect my
>LS120 & CD)
>        Is this a bios prob or am I missing something simple. I have never
>worked
>with a HDD this big before and am totally stumped !! Feel really stupid too
>as I
>am studying for the A+ exam and am humbled by a HDD !
>TIA
>W.R.(Bill) Boulton
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>UIN 5090452
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