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.

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In a message dated 11/4/2003 1:38:29 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
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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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