My PC (PII 266 with Win 98) originally has a HD (name it as "1st") and
a CD-Rom connected to the primary IDE controller as master and slave
respectively. I added a 2nd HD (nname it as "2nd"), connected to the
seconard IDE controller as master. The 1st HD has only a single primary
partition, (C:) Dos FAT32, active with Win98 as the OS. After physical
connection of the 2nd HD I fdisk-ed it into a single extended partition
with 2 logical drives (D:, E:; my cd-rom is Z:). Everything gose perfect
in the BIO detecting stage, It shows Disk 0 (primary master) for the 1st,
disk 2 (secondary master) 2nd. But my pc fails to boot I only get a black
screen and a blinking curser, no warning message as invalid OS disk. I
started it up with a startup disk and  checked with fdisk. I strangely
found that the disk order is reversed. Disk 1 is 2nd (secondary
master)with
an ext partition (D:& E:) Disk 2 is 1st (Primary master) with primary
partition (C:). This order is contradic to the phisical connection in the
MB and the BIO. and I think that is why the booting fails.

I need help to rectify this problem. Is the problem raised form the MB,
the HD's
or the IDE cables? Since i have no spare parts for troubleshooting please
help me
by giving your opions and suggections.

Thank you very much for your response.


Stephen Lo


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        Stephen Lo ([log in to unmask])
        Vancouver CommunityNet
        Vancouver BC Canada

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