As far as I know, Windows 98 will not recognize unprepared disks (i.e: not partioned) unlike NT based Windows do. You need to make it partitioned with something like fdisk or any other partitioning utility. Already goes witout saying but, partition must be FAT32, not NTFS.

Also make sure that both channels of your EIDE controller is recognized and working without problems (check from deivce manager under hard disk controllers). If there is no secondary IDE controller/channel/port in the device manager, and/or there is a yellow problem sign near the second channel, you probably need to install driver sofware/INF utility of your control card or mobo.

tayyare wrote:

As far as I know, Windows 98 will not recognize unprepared disks (i.e: not partioned) unlike NT based Windows do. You need to make it partitioned with something like fdisk or any other partitioning utility. Already goes witout saying but, partition must be FAT32, not NTFS.

Also make sure that both channels of your EIDE controller is recognized and working without problems (check from deivce manager under hard disk controllers). If there is no secondary IDE controller/channel/port in the device manager, and/or there is a yellow problem sign near the second channel, you probably need to install driver sofware/INF utility of your control card or mobo.

Alright, I'll check that out.
Also is this error relevant with the things you said in your post?
PRIMARY IDE CHANNEL NO 80 CONDUCTOR CABLE INSTALLED
It's from the POST boot screen, but it stays there for less than a second and then it boots like it's normal.
Thank you for your post!

As far as I remember, it should still work, although in slower modes. 80 conductor cable is definately preferred, and I strongly suggest you to use one to unleash the full performance potential of your HDD.

tayyare wrote:

As far as I remember, it should still work, although in slower modes. 80 conductor cable is definately preferred, and I strongly suggest you to use one to unleash the full performance potential of your HDD.

OK, I'll check out my space cables if I can find one like that. 😀

MySpace wrote:

tayyare wrote:

As far as I remember, it should still work, although in slower modes. 80 conductor cable is definately preferred, and I strongly suggest you to use one to unleash the full performance potential of your HDD.

OK, I'll check out my space cables if I can find one like that. 😀

Please note that they look very similar. There is no difference in number of pins, they both are 40 pins. The 80 conductor cable is same size, same everything but it has two cables per pin, so thinner individual cables gong to the pins. And generally they have one blue, one black and one gray headers.

One important thing is, they are NOT "free for all" kind of cables. One connector (black) is for master and the other (gray) is for slave drives, and blue goes to controller/motherboard. They are not interchangable.