Buzzing huh? Have you checked for bee's ? *whacky grin*

You said that you reconnected the original drive and it boots fine,
however with the 2nd drive nothing happens. If the BIOS doesn't
recognize any of the drives then something nutty is going on. If it
only doesn't recognize the 2nd drive, then the drive is either bad,
your BIOS is old and doesn't support that size drive yet, or you bios
is messed up. I'd lean more towards the drive being screwed up or the
BIOS not being able to support it. If you know what brand and model
your BIOS is, you can upgrade it with a software download.
************************************************** ******************
WARNING: If you decided to upgrade your BIOS and something goes wrong,
or you don't use the correct patch. Your motherboard WILL NO LONGER
WORK, until the BIOS chip is replaced!
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After you figure that out I would disconnect the original drive and
[only] connect the 2nd drive on the primary IDE cable. Make sure that
when you do this you change the jumpers on the drive so that it is now
the MASTER. Depending on your bios you might have to enter setup and
reconfigure it so that it recognizes the new drive. Once thats in
place boot with a floppy disk and try switching to that drive. If that
works run fdisk, create a partition, and format it.

If this doesn't work I would try one of the utilities listed on this
site - http://www.disk-utility.com/hard-dis...el-format.html

If that works, then I would remove the drive, reset the jumpers to
"slave" and reinstall the original HD as master.

..... but if it didn't work, you can always used it as a cheap door
stop or a paper weight. --- Throw the P.O.S. away! ---

- Rick


(arvind) wrote in message . com...
Hi

Well I'm having an AMD-450Mhz sys with a 4Gb HDD with Win 98se
installed and working quite well.

Recently I purchased a second HDD of 6.4GB which I was told had some
problems which was not specified. Now after installing the Second HDD
the BIOS refuses to recognise both the drives. I've tried changing the
jumper setting's making the second one the master and the other one
the slave, but still the drive's are not seen by the BIOS. I've also
tried booting through the bootable floppy and also a bootable CD,
still the same result. I've noticed that there is a humming sound in
the second drive, which I presume could be an indication that the
drive may not be completely dead.

On disconnecting the second drive, and restarting, the system boots ok
and starts the OS without any problem.

Could someone please explain what's wrong with the Hard Drive and
suggest any solutions to resolve the same.

Any help provide would be appreciated.

Thanks