Did you remember to change the jumper settings on both the C and D drives.  The C should be master with slave, and the D should be set for slave.  Is the C drive on the end of the data cable and the D on the middle plug?



Jim Cooley <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>From: Jim Cooley  [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Slave HD Not found
>
>The C: drive on my IBM Aptiva with Windows 98 SE was a Quantum Big Foot.
>I installed a Seagate Barracuda 100 GB Ultra AT/100 according to instructions,
>intending to make the new Barracuda C: (master) and the old Big Foot D: (slave).  The installation program
>moved almost everything, the operating system, applications, data, etc. to the new disk.  (Seagate
>support had to tell me to give a sys C: command to install the system files).  Everything runs fine from the
>new disk.  However, it does not recognize the slave, i.e. the old Big Foot.
>I ran the computer with the slave detached, turned it off, re-attached the old Big Foot, and turned the computer
>on again.  It does not recognize the slave in the device manager or the system tools/storage/drives.  I also
>went through the control program/install new hardware and it does not find the Big Foot slave.
>The new disk came with a new ribbon cable which I installed.
>By the way, I had an old disk as a D: drive before this installation and it was working fine.
>I would appreciate any suggestions.
>
>        >

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