OK, to verify and clarify.
I've removed both drives and checker jumpers. The Maxtor is primary and the W.D. is slave, both on the same cable connected in the proper position.
System boots fine, BIOS sees both drives. Computer mngmnt / disk mngr sees only the primary drive, my CD Rom's and the...
I'm running XP Pro on a 20gig WD drive. I've recently installed a Maxtor 20gig as the slave. The Maxtor is listed in hardware devices which says it's operating.
In Disk management or devices it is not listed so I can't do anything with it. My Ontrack disk utilities sees it and will test it. MS...
I've pickup a new system with this MB, Athlon 950 and DDR (256)20G WD 7200rpm HD and 56x CDROM.
With Win 98se it is slower than my 386 w/ win 3.1, literaly!
Looks very much like the MB is bad, now even the numlock lite on the keyboard stays on after shutdown.
Need to pick a good replacement.
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