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anyone have any ideas on this win98 problem?
Posted By: shadowfax, on host 206.191.194.194
Date: Monday, November 27, 2000, at 09:39:33

I'm working on revamping my mom's old boat anchor P133. She has 2 HD's, a WD 13 gig and a WD 1 gig. The 13 is the primary drive. She went and installed AOL 5 and royally screwed up the system. Shortly thereafter she opened a file that was obviously a virus, which did more damage, so we formatted and installed Win98 instead of Win95, which is what she was previously using. Now it's not recognizing the 1gig drive. The drive is there in the bootup hard drive check, but isn't there once the OS loads. BIOS doesn't appear to be recognizing it either as it's not there under FDISK, but EZBIOS (the Western Digital secondary bios that allows her old machine to recognize drives larger than 2 gigs) recognizes the slave drive.

So bottom line, what do i do to recognize this drive under win98 so i can get the files we backed up on it? As an aside, I threw the drive on my system and MY computer isn't recognizing it either, so I'm guessing it's something regarding the drive itself. any advice?

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