I recently got an IBM 20G, 7200 IDE HD, OEM, supposedly factory
reconditioned, from an online store(it wasn't sealed, and there was no
factory recond. sticker on it).  I first set it up as a slave to my 10G
quantum, to partition and format it (I runW98 on this machne).   The bios
detected it properly and I Fdisked it per usual-FAT32, with one primary
partition for the entire drive.  Drive info while in Fdisk, showed the drive
and the primary partition, but it was not assigned a letter for some reason.
When I rebooted, in order to format, the drive was not there- at the DOS
prompt, or in windows.  Fdisk showed it as,  "No partitions defined."   I
then set up the drive as master, by itself, and used the W98 startup disk.
Repeating the same procedure, I had the same result as before.  I also tried
scandisk, but it reported it could not scan this drive.   This is the first
time I have ever run into this.   Anyone have a clue?
Thanks, Edna Sloan

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