re: getting ready to install 2nd HD, lost CD ROM and CD/RW Friday, December 19, 2003 at 5:17 pm Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by carl (855 messages posted) Also check that red edge of the ribbon cable is on pin1 on both the hard drive and the motherboard when you attach the cable. On Friday, December 19, 2003 at 12:55 pm, Randy wrote: >My computer has an ECS P6BAT-A+ mother board with Win 98. I am planning to add another >HD as a slave to the original. When I removed the computer's cover I saw cable configuration >that was different than I expected. > All of the instuctions that I've seen say that the master & slave drives (of the >same type) should be on the same cable with the master at the outside end. Mine was >set up so that the bootable master hard drive was in the middle closest to the board >while...on the same cable...the CD-ROM, set as master, was at the end. The second >IDE cable had only the CD/RW drive set as slave on it. The third IDE cable is the >FDD. > The maker of the new hard drive, Western Digital, confirmed the both HD's should >be on the same cable so I rearranged things so that: The first IDE cable has only >the bootable drive installed on it, set as master, at the end of the cable. The second >IDE cable has the master CD-ROM at the end of the cable with the slave CD/RW on the >middle connector. I then rebooted to check everything before I installed the new >HD. > The computer booted ok but I noticed the packet writing icon (InCD) in the systray >displayed a yellow exclamation mark for conflict. I checked "My Computer" and the >control panel. There was no sign that these two drives had ever been there. I tried >"install new hardware" but Win 98 couldn't detect them. I tried opening Nero and >it said that the WIN-ASPI file is missing. Neither CD drive will operate. > I would really appreciate any suggestions that anyone may have. Written in response to: getting ready to install 2nd HD, lost CD ROM and CD/RW (Randy: Friday, December 19, 2003 at 12:55 pm) Responses to this message: re: getting ready to install 2nd HD, lost CD ROM and CD/RW (Randy: Friday, December 19, 2003 at 7:53 pm) All messages in this thread [show all] getting ready to install 2nd HD, lost CD ROM and CD/RW (Randy: Fri, Dec 19, 2003, 12:55 pm) re: getting ready to install 2nd HD, lost CD ROM and CD/RW (carl: Fri, Dec 19, 2003, 5:14 pm) re: getting ready to install 2nd HD, lost CD ROM and CD/RW (carl: Fri, Dec 19, 2003, 5:17 pm) re: getting ready to install 2nd HD, lost CD ROM and CD/RW (Randy: Fri, Dec 19, 2003, 7:53 pm) re: getting ready to install 2nd HD, lost CD ROM and CD/RW (Gerry Kroll: Fri, Dec 19, 2003, 6:35 pm) re: getting ready to install 2nd HD, lost CD ROM and CD/RW (Randy: Fri, Dec 19, 2003, 7:57 pm) re: getting ready to install 2nd HD, lost CD ROM and CD/RW (Gerry Kroll: Sat, Dec 20, 2003, 6:27 am) re: getting ready to install 2nd HD, lost CD ROM and CD/RW (Randy: Sat, Dec 20, 2003, 8:22 am) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 98 Discussion Forum