Your post confused me completely.(I confuse easily.) I was four or five lines into it before I figured out that you weren't talking about a boat, an airplane, or a motorcycle. You actually used the words "boat" and "anchor." HD can be short for Harley-Davidson and P133 could have been an airplane like a P38 or a P51. A primary drive could have been the shaft that drives the prop on a boat or an airplane. In fact if a boat has a transmission (F-R), the shaft could easily be the one that connects the engine to the transmission and the secondary drive could go from there to the propeller. In an airplane, the primary drive might have connected the engine to the reduction gear that drives the propeller. I was beginning to wonder if your mom was a biker or something.

Sorry I can't help you with her computer problem. I know even less about computers than I do about boats, planes, and motorcycles.
Howard

> 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.
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> 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?