Hard drive installation

[nodiddley]

Recently got a great deal on a Maxtor 20 gig hard disk and now I'm trying to install the Maxtor on my system as a slave behind a WD 6.4 as master on IDE 1. Two CD-ROM(s) already take up IDE-2 and work fine with the existing WD. I've been sucessful at geting the bios (Award) to recognize the master slave setup but Win98 doesn't report any drive assignment. Does anyone have a clue???
Any help greatly appreciated.

thanks,
wmr

[topflite51]

Did you format and fdisk it? Set the jumper for slave?

[This message has been edited by topflite51 (edited 12-18-1999).]

[nodiddley]

Yes I set the Maxtor as a slave and set the bios to AUTO. In the boot cycle the Wd is recognized as the master and the Maxtor comes up as having been recognized as the slave. No I can't get to the Fdisk stage. What now?

thanks

[topflite51]

Do you have a boot disk? If so set CMOS to boot from the A drive. Fdisk and format it, make sure you transfer the system files also.

It's getting late, you can also press F8 on the power up, that will take you to a screen, select command prompt only, press enter


[This message has been edited by topflite51 (edited 12-18-1999).]

[DavidX]

Yup, as Topflite says, you can't fdisk from within Windows. It's a DOS command.

[krusty]

Actually, from within windows click

'start'
'run'
then type 'fdisk' & it will work from there. You can only do this if it not your 'c' drive you are trying to fdisk.

[nodiddley]

Got the BIG-MAX baby running fine with youse guys help.

Thanks to all <topflite51, davidx & krusty>

Incidently the run>fdisk within Win98 works perfectly super.

a very happy holiday to you all & to the SysOpt folks also

God Bless