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mrjoeyman - 18 Aug 2003 04:47 GMT

I hooked an extra hard drive that I had been using in an
xp puter (it was an extra in the xp puter too) to my
win98se system puter, and it wouldnt recognize it (wouldnt
show up in "my computer"). So I then unhooked it and now
the win98se system computer wont recognize its own
existing hard drive, which it did up until I put this
extra hard drive in, and took it out. So I put the extra
hard drive back in and hooked it up, and now it still wont
recognize it (show up in "my computer) but it makes it
recognize the already existing hard drive again. Can
someone help? The extra hard drive is set to slave, and
the already existing hard drive is set to master. Before I
did all of this, it recognized its already existing hard
drive just fine.

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newsreader - 18 Aug 2003 15:51 GMT

In the hook/unhook process I guess you have dislodged the IDE cable or
power cable at one end or the other.
As for the 'not recognising' bit it is probably because XP configured it
as NTFS and win9x does not recognise that file system.

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>I hooked an extra hard drive that I had been using in an
>xp puter (it was an extra in the xp puter too) to my
[quoted text clipped - 10 lines]
>did all of this, it recognized its already existing hard
>drive just fine.

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Lil' Dave - 18 Aug 2003 23:31 GMT

2nd hard drive recognition in windows, NTFS. First hard drive not
recognized alone, jumpers...
Dave

> I hooked an extra hard drive that I had been using in an
> xp puter (it was an extra in the xp puter too) to my
[quoted text clipped - 10 lines]
> did all of this, it recognized its already existing hard
> drive just fine.

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