Help - 2nd HD not recognized

[Guest]

I just got a new hard disk and installed Win2kPro on it. All the work
on the new disk was with the old one disconnected.

The old HD was a 60GB drive with 20GB partitions with Win98 2nd ed.
and formatted as FAT32.

I can use either physical HD ok if alone. But when I attach the old
HD as a slave with the new HD as master, Win2kPro does not recognize
any drive letters. Both HDs are evident in CMOS, and Computer
Management/Storage/Disk Management shows the second HD as a single
primary partition of ~60GB, but no drive letters are assigned.

How can I use the second drive under Win2kPro without deleting the
Win98 primary partition or reformatting?

Thanks,

Doug

 

[Dave Patrick]

You shouldn't have done the drive swapping before the install. You'll need
to either reinstall the second OS (with the drive connected as slave) or use
a third party boot manager.

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| I just got a new hard disk and installed Win2kPro on it. All the work
| on the new disk was with the old one disconnected.
|
| The old HD was a 60GB drive with 20GB partitions with Win98 2nd ed.
| and formatted as FAT32.
|
| I can use either physical HD ok if alone. But when I attach the old
| HD as a slave with the new HD as master, Win2kPro does not recognize
| any drive letters. Both HDs are evident in CMOS, and Computer
| Management/Storage/Disk Management shows the second HD as a single
| primary partition of ~60GB, but no drive letters are assigned.
|
| How can I use the second drive under Win2kPro without deleting the
| Win98 primary partition or reformatting?
|
| Thanks,
|
| Doug
|