How do I get my D Drive back?

[candd1212]

Hi. I feel really silly.........but I can't get my D Drive working. I did fdisk on my Maxtor hard drive (15.3 GB) and used MaxBlast Plus to format. I have a C drive but when I try to format the D drive I get this message "identify drive command failure, aborted command". I have the hard drive as my Primary Master, the CD-R/RW Secondary Master, and the DVD-ROM as secondary slave. In the BIOS settings my Primary and Secondary IDE are showing but my Secondary slave is not. What am I doing wrong? HELP!!

 

[Lunatic]

Try putting the Harddrives on the same ribbon. Make sure they are set right, master and slave.

You should always try to put harddrives and cdrom drives on different ribbons.

 

[candd1212]

One more question?!

Thank you for your help. I am now reading all of my drives! But I have one
more question for you and my question is this....... I thought that when I did
the fdisk/format that I had essentially cleaned my hard drive of everything
that was on it. But now upon trying to install my OS I am having problems
in the setup. Scandisk has found damaged and unusable Directory files and so I am using the 'fix it' button alot!!! I am installing Win98SE from a CD and how can there be all of these damaged files? I have never had this problem before. Can you help me out here? Thank you!!

 

[RealBlackStuff]

Win98SE can only be installed on the C-drive, nowhere else.
C is your Primary Master
D is your Primary Slave

Go to www.bootdisk.com and scroll down to the HOW TO... section to get instructions on how to install W98.