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re: Hard drive shows in BIOS but not in Windows
Wednesday, December 5, 2007 at 5:37 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by C K
(5976 messages posted)
In addition to Don's post, when you changed motherboards, W2K and XP will not auto
detect the change in the IDE controller as will Win 98, change the driver and boot.
W2K and XP have to run a repair install to reconfigure and change the IDE controller
driver. There are other ways to fix it but you have to start the process BEFORE
you change motherboards and it isn't for the faint of heart. The easist way is do
the repair install and let windows do it. You may have to use the F6 option to load
the IDE driver if the install fails just in case W2k doesn't have a compatible driver.
(haven't worked with that particular MB yet) How are you running Win 98 on that
hardware? Are the IDE channel(s) running in DMA or legacy/PIO mode? Most of the
time Win9X will choke with that much memory even when you limit the memory IME.
On Wednesday, December 5, 2007 at 2:55 pm, Malcolm Fowler wrote:
>I have just replaced the M/B in my son's computer and reinstalled two original 80GB
>hard drives and the DVD burner. Primary hard drive (which has two partitions
C
>& D) is set as Master and the DVD set as Slave on IDE 1 The second hard drive, a
>single partition previously known as F is set as Master on IDE2 Previously the
>PC was set up to dual boot between Windows 98SE and Windows 2000 Pro The correct
>drive info shows in BIOS - all hardware is present. When th machine is booted
and
>the 98 option chosen all is well and the boot proceeds successfully - however in
>Explorer Drive F (the drive on IDE2) cannot be "seen". If you try to boot into
>Win 2000 you get a blue screen telling you that there is a disk configuration problem
>- which I assume is because after attempting to boot into 2000 the PC cannot "find"
>drive F where the operating system is. Any ideas on how to render drive F "visible"
>to Windows would be appreciated... Machine spec is Asus P4P800-E motherboard,
Intel
>P4 2.8GHz HT processor, 1GB DDR2 memory in dual channel mode, Radeon 9600 128MB
graphics
>card and 2 x 80GB IDE hard drives.
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