Re: new hard drive not recognised by win 98

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From: Adam Starkey
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1998 00:00

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steve smith wrote in message
<910538104.3206.0.nnrp-06.9e9871a2@news.demon.co.uk>...
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>steve smith wrote in message ...
>>Can somebody please help with the following problem.
>>
>>I have just installed a new fujitsu 8.4GB hard drive on the secondary ide
>>port as a master.
>>
>>I already have a quantum fireball as master on the primary ide port,
>working
>>normally.
>>
>>The bios (Award 4.51) recognises it and sets it up in hdd auto detect.
>>
>>When win98 boots up there is no mention of a new device and when forcing a
>>new hardware search nothing shows up.
>>
>>Regards Steve Smith
>>
>>
Have you FDisked the drive yet?

If the drive does not contain a primary dos partition, it will not be
detected by windows.

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From: "Adam Starkey" <adam@starkey.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: new hard drive not recognised by win 98
Date: 1998/11/15
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