Hi folks, got a problem trying to install a Maxtor 5T010H1 10g hd as a slave in my 4 year old box  - MB is a M754lmr all-in-one running at 700m with PCI components, a V90 modem and 360meg of RAM.
I CURRENTLY have installed a 10G hd with w98se and a 1g Seagate as a backup which is ALMOST full.
I got a hold of the Maxtor cheap from a crashed system and I understand that it has wxp pro installed. I checked Seagate's website and according to them when installed as a slave the drive needs no jumpers - however when I try to install it the BIOS recognises it as a slave and it spins up but does not show up in my system at all.  Would xp pro be blocking access somehow? and if so how do I format the thing when my system doesn't recognise it?   
Any suggestions will be appreciated, and, oh yes, it is on the correct middle plug on the ribbon cable.
IanIf it was formatted as NTFS you will not be able to see it with Win98. You should remove and recreate the partitions on the XP drive, and then format as FAT32.  That's what I would like to do, but how? I tried INSTALLING it as a master and formatting it, but xp will not allow me to format a drive with an operating system on it from the same drive!DLoad the tools from Maxtor's site and use them to wipe the drive.Thanks for the help - downloaded Seagate's drive test software for DOS which also includes a utility which removes most of the data from the drive and replaces it with 000's - then ran FDISK to partition the drive to 1 partition at which point w98 recognised the thing and I could format it - having tried xp and taken a look at Vista I am sticking with w98se which is still DOS based, is reasonably stable and is predictable to work with xp with all those pop-ups and balloons would drive me nuts in no time - why the *censored* could Microsoft not has stuck with and developed w98 - the most stable and easily understandable version of windows?
Again thanks for the help which worked for me!
IanWin2K for me...
Glad to hear you got it solved and stop by ANYTIME ! !Thanks for posting back. We'll keep the lights on.