HI, I had a similiar problem with a HD once. The only way I could get it to see the partition is when it was set as master. If I slaved it to the primary, it didn't see it, but as soon as I put it as master on the secondary, the partition worked fine. Maybe this will help you. HTH, Donald Gaither >> At 06:32 PM 12/12/98 -0500, you wrote: >> >I have install a Hard Drive on my computer in orther to transfer his data to >> >my computer. The bios did acknoledge it but dos and windows didn't. what I >> >did is use fdisk to sea what happened. Fdisk show the drive with 0% of use. >> >what I conclude is that the partiontion is broken. >> > >> >I have 2 questions: >> > >> >Could someone explain to me what has happenned here? >> >Does it has a way to reconver a lost partion? >> > >> >I have a pentium 100Mhz, Fx chipset >> >16 Meg Ram >> >Matrox millenium >> >IDE used >> > 1.6 Gig Primary Master >> > 100 Meg Primary Slave (The new installed in replacement of the 4X CD-Rom) >> > 5.1 Gig Secondary Master >> > Yamaha CD-RW Secondary Slave. Do you want to signoff PCBUILD or just change to Digest mode - visit our web site: http://nospin.com/pc/pcbuild.html