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Subject:	Re: OT: Additional disk drive (Windows 98)
From:	Tim Cummings <[log in to unmask]>
Reply To:	Tim Cummings <[log in to unmask]>
Date:	Mon, 10 May 2004 16:34:48 -0400
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Paul,

Is this an internal IDE drive or an external USB drive?

If it is an external USB drive, you may need to install some drivers.

If it is internal drive, then you will have to ensure that if you connect
2 drives on the same IDE ribbon cable, that one of the drives are
jumpered as the master and the other jumpered as a slave.  Most drives have
a set of 6 pins.  They look like this:

            C M S
            S A L

            : : :

Where CS is "Cable Select" MA is "Master" and SL is "Slave".

I would suggest that you jumper the new drive as the slave.

Also, depending on the BIOS on your system, you may have to set the drive
type
and/or Cylinders/Heads/Sectors.

You  might also look at this from the opposite direction and put your old
Win 98 drive in your new XP system and configure it as a slave.  Then you
could drag and drop the stuff you want to keep to your new system's C drive.

Tim


-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Christidis [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Monday, May 10, 2004 3:30 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: [HP3000-L] OT: Additional disk drive (Windows 98)


Hi folks,

I'm facing the following situation and I thought that I'd ask for some
help.

At home I have an 'emachines' PC running Windows 98.  Per someone's
insistence (related to new work project), I signed up for DSL access.  I
ran into some problems during the installation and now my PC is 'messed up'
enough that I do not have internet access.  It seems that I'll have to
re-install the OS, and I'd like to "save off" my wife's and kid's homework.
So I took home a spare disk drive and I've been trying to install it and
have Windows 98 "see" the new drive, without much luck.

I also took home another PC with Windows XP on it, installed DSL (so our
internet access and email is back), and plan to make that our new "home
PC".  My plan is to copy onto the new drive the needed files (if I can ever
get Windows 98 to "see" the new drive), and then install that drive into
our new machine.

I'd appreciate any help.

Regards
Paul Christidis

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