- Slave drive is not recognized by Windows Explorer?
- Posted by chiropter on March 7th, 2005
My platform is Win 98. Until recently I had no problem to see the
content of the secondary HDD (slave, Maxtor) connected to the same
ribbon cable as the primary HDD(also Maxtor). Now Windows Explorer does
not show the second HDD. I checked Bios which is set to autodetect the
secondary (slave) as well as the primary (master). Device Manager lists
the secondary drive with "working properly" message. In fact, at the
booting I can see the second HDD as the first HDD in the flowing Bios
screen with correct identification. I even once removed the second HDD
in the device manager before rebooting, but it did not solve the problem.
(To be sure, I have checked the integrity of both drives and correct
jumpers setting .)
Can anybody tell whether this is a motherboard problem or whether
something happened to the Win 98 system
files? What might be the way to solve this problem?
- Posted by Don Phillipson on March 7th, 2005
"chiropter" <chiropter@cox.net> wrote in message
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These are two candidate diagnoses.
A third is that the missing HDD is now damaged.
You can check this by swapping the first and
second drives (correctly jumpered) and investigating
whether (a) BIOS, (b) Win98 sees either or both
correctly.
--
Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs
(Ottawa, Canada)
- Posted by Ben Myers on March 7th, 2005
Maxtor has diagnostic software that can help with this.
http://www.maxtor.com
MaxBlast3 for Windows
http://downloads.maxtor.com/_files/m...xblast3win.exe
Ben
"chiropter" <chiropter@cox.net> wrote in message news:422C1461.4070203@cox.net...
- Posted by Ben Myers on March 7th, 2005
Correction. PowerMax is more appropriate.
http://downloads.maxtor.com/_files/m...s/powermax.exe
Ben
"Ben Myers" <benjmyers@mindR-E-M-O-V-Espring.com> wrote in message news:uooO3cyIFHA.236@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...
Maxtor has diagnostic software that can help with this.
http://www.maxtor.com
MaxBlast3 for Windows
http://downloads.maxtor.com/_files/m...xblast3win.exe
Ben
"chiropter" <chiropter@cox.net> wrote in message news:422C1461.4070203@cox.net...
- Posted by Jeff Richards on March 8th, 2005
If Device Manager sees the drive but Windows does not assign a drive letter
that indicates the drive is working but the partitioning is not seen as a
valid Windows 9x partition. This usually indicates some damage to the
partition table. Use FDISK to discover what Windows sees about the
partitioning of the drive. Use PartInfo to detect if the drive is actually
accessible, and exactly what the partition table indicates.
http://www.diydatarecovery.nl/ForumEntrance.htm
http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/utilities.html
--
Jeff Richards
MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User)
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