Hey Annette,
I just came in, in the middle of this thread.....did someone mention you may
have to reset the jumper????
Stan

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[mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Annette Robart
Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2003 6:27 AM
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Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] No drive letter


The thing is, this is a hard drive off of another computer with important
information on it that I need to save. It was starting to get disk write
errors and I just wanted to hook it up as a slave on another computer to get
the information off of it. Could it be that the hard drive is just toast??
I just installed it brand new a month ago.

>>> <[log in to unmask]> 11/04 7:11 AM >>>
In a message dated 11/4/2003 1:38:29 AM Eastern Standard Time,
[log in to unmask] writes:
I attached a hard drive as a slave and it is recognized when the computer
boots up. When I go into my computer the second hard drive is there also,
but it
is not assigned a drive letter so I can not access the drive.  I've never
had
this happen, what could be causing this? (win98)

Thanks in advance,
Annette Robart
Hi,
  In order for a drive to be assigned a drive letter, it must be
partitioned,
to be used it must be formatted. With Win98, use the FDISK command to
partition it (DO NOT partition or format your existing C: drive by mistake),
and then
you can either format it from a DOS prompt with the FORMAT command, or from
windows explorer, if you right click on the new drive, one of the choices
should be to format it.

HTH,
Peter Hogan
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