Try partition the new drive in DOS first. You can restart your computer in
DOS and Fdisk to create partitions, then reboot and format it. Just make
sure your BIOS can see the 20G drive, then win95 will take what ever the
BIOS tells it. If you are using Win95a, you may need to download and install
win95 service pack from MS.

Jun Qian

----- Original Message -----
From: "Keith Gladstone" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2000 5:20 AM
Subject: [PCBUILD] New Hard Disk Not recognised


> I have just installed a new Maxtor 20.5 gig HD, I configured it as a slave
> and was able to boot and then format the drive.  My first problem was that
> windows would only format it to 8024Mb, I think this is a problem with
Win95
> only recognising drives to that size, but it isnt really a problem to me.
> When I have subsequently tried to boot, throughout the BIOS setup the new
> drive is recognised but when windows starts the drive is not there.
> I have checked in Control Panel/System and the new drive is shown as
Generic
> IDE disk type 47 (The same as the existing C drive) but no drive letter is
> assigned.  The drive letter start & finish buttons are greyed out and I
> can't type a letter into them or the current drive letter assignment box.
> What do I have to do to make the PC recognise the drive?  Why did the PC
> originally recognise the disk, and then spit its' dummy out and ignore
it?!
>
>

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