hi all,
I added a second hard drive, checked it to auto detect in the bios,
which it did, but on bootup am getting the following error:
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Error auto-sensing hard disk drive 2
Strike the f1 key to continue, f2 to run the setup utility
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I strike F1 and it boots up fine and all works just as it should, the C:
drive is a 2.1G drive, the D: drive is a 1.2G. I was able to fdisk and
format it, ran a thorough scandisk and it checked out perfectly.
I have both HD's on the same ribbon, C: is first, and D: is the
terminating drive. D: was set to slave position (no jumpers) and I
created an extended dos partition when setting it up.
I also installed a new CD burner, though have not installed the software
yet, just put drivers on so I could access it to install 98.
This has to be a bios problem, but I just don't know what? Any thoughts?
thanks,
niteowl

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brodick@thehouse.com - 17 Dec 2003 21:27 GMT
> hi all,
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* Fresh NEW ribbon cable or old but freshly disturbed cable?
* Did you select the BIOS option for master & slave