OK, here is the latest happenings. After reading the question as to
whether the BIOS detected the drive, I checked it out and it did not
recognize anything. I made sure they were all set to AUTO DETECT and
restarted, still did not detect anything.

Then I started thinking about the master/slave jumper. I took out the
jumper and reversed a cable, both the CD ROM and the CDRW were
recognized. So one problem solved. NOW, I still can't fdisk, it is
still saying there are no fixed disks present. That was after I booted
the computer with the boot disk only. Once I put in the Windows
Installation cd, it began the process and then went to a blue screen
stating that it basically can't locate the hard drive. Is it possible
that my jumper settings are STILL wrong? This just baffles me because
it recognized the cd rom drivers but still no luck with the hard drive.
I don't understand it either because at one point it asked if I wanted
to boot off of the CD ROM or off of the Hard Disk. Confusing.. Any help
w/this would be very appreciated!



Mikhail Zhilin Wrote:

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HJobe71h

The Hard Drive MUST be seen and PROPERLY recognized in the BIOS before
you can do anything. If the BIOS does not see the drive there is no
sense trying anything else. You will have to do some "trial and error"
work with the jumper settings and location of the drive on the IDE
cable. Try setting the drive jumper to "Master" then try it on the
Primary IDE controller at the end of the cable or in the middle. Or set
the jumper to "Cable Select" and try again on both location on the IDE
cable. The drive location is different on regular and on cable select
cable. Although the cables are almost identical in appearance the type
of cable you have makes a difference. Once the drive is recognized in
the BIOS you will then have to run fdisk and create 1 or more partitions
then format them.

John

HJobe71h wrote: