Stuck again..hard drive

[L]

Well the problem is I have a hard drive (Maxtor) which when I make a
slave system does not see it. When I make it a master the best it will
do is bring up the Windows log and stay there for ever. If I wait long
enough and mash a lot of key I get three messages saying I am missing
files. But this does me no good because I cant format use FDISH. I
just cant get access to the drive. I have tried NORTON, MAXTOR drive
install, backup floppy, boot disk message I get back is wrong dos
version. I believe that one message I received from NORTON was that a
table defining characteristic of the hard drive was bad. Trying to use
FDISK /MBR but I just cant get access to the drive. Yes I have been
trying for hours and hours to fix this problem. No happy results!!.
Would it make any difference if I put the slave on the other controller
and make it a slave there,e.g., ATA controller has Master on one cable
and cd and slave drive on the other cable?. Yes I am just guessing. I
will post this on MPW setup, and AC hardware not sure about win 98
listing. I am really out of ideals.
Thanks in advance. WIN98SE.

[Gary S. Terhune]

Asked and answered in the Setup group. Please do not post the same issue to
more than one group unless you use proper cross-posting (address the *same*
post to multiple groups, not copies of the post to individual groups.)
Proper cross-posting may not be possible using a web-based interface to
Usenet. I suggest you either use a proper newsreader (like Outlook Express)
or simply choose carefully where to post and post only once. If we think it
belongs in a different forum, we'll tell you.

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Gary S. Terhune
MS-MVP Shell/User
http://grystmill.com/articles/cleanboot.htm
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