Hook up the "new" drive as Master or Stand Alone with no other
HDs "in the system" and boot from a floppy to see what you see...
Get the jumpers right!!!

If it works then -- (next):
You might need to put the drives EACH own their own cable
and jumper them both as either Master, Master with Slave, or
Stand Alone, depending on the brand and requirements of the
drive - AND/or noting IF anything else is on the same cable with it...

Be VERY carefull to set the jumpers correctly as it can make
the computer VERY dead looking... YMMV...

                                                 Rick Glazier

From: "The Tone Zone"

> I have the OS (WIN98 first edition)on a small hard drive.I would like to
> install the 20GB drive and switch the OS to that drive.The machine won't
> recognize the large hard drive at all.Won't auto detect and won't post when
> I hook it up as a slave.
> I'm sure the bios is the problem and that's why I'm looking for new Western
> Digital 8 meg hard drives.
> Thought maybe there was something I've forgottten over the last couple years
> about installing drives in WIN98 .I'm guessing upgrading the OS would not
> help?I would still have a bios problem.
> Thanks,

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