Marshall,

Have you looked into your CMOS settings to make sure the IDE drives are on
Auto Detect?

Try checking your master/slave settings again.  You didn't say what brand
the 6 gig drive was - many have a stand alone setting that doesn't work as a
master and will prevent the slave from being identified.

Good luck,
Rand Blunck
Why Not Try Computing
Glendale, AZ

----- Original Message -----
From: "Fortescue, Marshall" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2001 5:33 PM
Subject: [PCBUILD] Hard Drive Blues


> Help!!
>
> I have been trying to get 2 hard drives to be visible to my system.  I
have
> a celeron 360, WinME, 1 20G Maxtor drive and a drive that came with the
> computer (6 G)...It was suggested by someone on the list that I may have a
> problem having two drives on the same IDE cable and to have one cable with
> CD and Hard Drive, the other IDE with CDRW and other HD.  I tried that and
> was careful with master/slave arrangement.
>
> It didn't work...In fact it only gave me my 6G HD (which is really not the
> drive I need (It doesn't have all of my data on it!)
>
> So, I tried to go back to the way it was...I put both CD drives on one IDE
> and then the two HDs on the other.  Still didn't get back to the way it
was.
> So, I disconnected the HD (6 Gig) that I didn't really want and only had
one
> drive on the IDE.  The drive is a Maxtor and therefore is not what windows
> thinks is "ATAPI compatible"  (whatever that means.)  I've tried to use
the
> Maxtor boot disk to run fdisk and it will only let me format the
disk...(it
> has over 10 G of stuff on it!).  And, using a WinME boot disk doesn't work
> because it doesn't find the Maxtor drive ("no fixed disk present" error
> message.
>
> Is there any hope getting all of my drive and the info on the drive back??
>
> I am feeling hopeless!
>
> Please help and TIA
> marshall
>
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