Two hardware suggestions:

1) Double check the master and slave settings on your hard drives. If they
are on the same IDE channel, one (C drive) must be the master and the other
(D drive) must be the slave. If they are on different IDE channels, they can
both be masters with C drive on the primary channel and D drive on the
secondary channel. If there is also one or more optical drives, they can be
jumpered as the master on the secondary channel or as slaves on the primary
or secondary channel. The C drive should be the primary master and the D
drive can be the primary slave, the secondary master, or the secondary
slave.

2) Try "cable select" to set up the various drives as masters and slaves. I
have found that some drive(s) and motherboard combinations just work better
that way even though the master/slave designations should work.

Then, assuming your BIOS shows both drives and it is the OS that does not
show the slave (D drive), you might try checking to make sure your
"environment" is set to see more than A,B(?) and C drives. If you also have
an optical drive(s), make sure it's configuration is not forcing a drive
designation for it that might conflict with the D drive.

I hope this helps you.

Tom Mayer

----- Original Message -----
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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